Essay#3

Essay#3
Due November 2

Subsistence is the ways that human beings adapt to their environment through culture. This adaptation involves the creation of technologies (human ideas, tools, and practices) that best exploit and maintain human populations and the environment.

After reading the blog, watching the video clips, discussing subsistence and environmental anthropology, and attending the film screening The Anthropologist---
(1) discuss how different human subsistence patterns impact the environment. (consider and analyze all of the following: H/G, plant-focused horticulture, pastoralism, agrarian agriculture and industrialized agriculture).
(2) How can anthropological knowledge and the anthropological perspective help to understand and resolve the issues surrounding climate change?

please see writing rubric for criteria.