Anna Horolets

ANTH 322 Environmental Anthropology 

3 credits 

Environmental anthropology investigates the relationship between people and their 

ecosystems. This course focuses on how this relationship evolves in various cultures around 

the world. We explore the diversity of concepts and notions of environment across geographic 

regions, climate zones, landscapes and lifestyles: from Bedouins in Arabian deserts to natives 

of Alaska and Siberia. We then bring this traditional knowledge of sustainable environment 

into the contemporary context to see to how it has been corrupted by the developments in 

technology, by global and local politics and by human’s greed for affluence. The final goal is 

to seek the ways of restoring the balance in our ecosystems and saving our planet from 

destruction.