ANTH 218 End of Nature? Environmental Degradation in a Globalizing Society
Environmental degradation in the form of the deforestation of tropical forests, the agricultural use of marginal lands, soil erosion, overfishing, overgrazing, and declines in the yields of American agriculture is an urgent and growing concern in this world of shrinking resources. This course will draw on current approaches in ecological, cognitive, and development anthropology. Case material will come from the tropical forests of Brazil, the Midwest of the United States, the mountains of the Andes and the Himalayas, the Sahel region of West Africa and the seas of North America and South Asia.