ANTH 529C -  ANALYZING GLOBAL CHANGE: ECOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SYNERGISMS (3) SHUGART& DAMON
T 1900-2130


This experimental seminar addresses two problems: How do natural and social sciences interact with one another to the benefit of their individual and joint interests? And how do they, jointly and separately, organize the understanding of large regions, defined temporally and spatially, to define focused, appropriate research questions? Although we encourage students of other areas to join us, the focus of this seminar will be the Indo-Pacific over the last 12-10,000 years. Topics to be considered because they engage human society/environment relations include the organization of floral and faunal systems across this region, and through time; geological and climatological conditions and transformations; currents of human use and expansion; and comparative calendrical and horticultural systems; and relationships between indigenous systems and those created from the arrival of the West to the present. Students are expected to participate in weekly readings and discussion as they move towards an analysis of a time and place concerning their own primary interests