Transcript Cultural Ecology

Natural Selection
If you have some feature that lets
more of your offspring survive and
grow up to reproduce than those
without it, then more and more
individuals in later generations will
come to share that feature.
That feature is adaptive
Selective advantage
Why are there different cultures?
How did they get the way they are?
Ecology
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How does the environment affect the
organism?
How does the organism affect its
environment?
How does the organism affect other organisms
in its environment?
Exchanges of energy and matter—
nutrients and chemicals necessary for
life—
Web of life
Cultural Ecology
Basic question of sociocultural anthropology—
how do we explain cultural similarities and
differences?
Cultures are systems, but some parts are more
important than others.
Ideology
People’s ideas about how the world operates
Cultural codes
Ways of understanding the world