Author Question: Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to ... (Read 83 times)

mwit1967 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to

A. find solutions, acknowledging that ecosystems management involves multiple levels.
B. prescribe top-down solutions to ecological problems.
C. work closely with state agencies, among whom they do most of their ethnography, to promote institutional change.
D. contribute to development projects that sometimes, out of necessity, replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.
E. promote the concepts of environmental rights, even at the expense of cultural rights.

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of the possible consequences experienced after the shock phase of an encounter between indigenous societies and more powerful outsiders?

A. increased mortality
B. a broad-spectrum revolution
C. fragmentation of kin groups
D. damaged social support systems
E. disrupted subsistence