Ecological Anthropology 20-KUDU-MA-EAN

Week 1: Introduction: Human Ecology

Week 2: Environmental Aspects in the Early Anthropological Thought: Julian Steward and Leslie White (lecture).

Week 3: Cultural Ecology: Robert Murphy and Roy Rappaport (lecture).

Week 4: Perception of the Environment: James Gibson and Tim Ingold (lecture).

Week 5: ‘Landscape’ as an Anthropological Concept
T. Ingold, Temporality of the Landscape, “World Archeology” 2, 1993, p. 152-174.
Ch. Tilley, K. Cameron-Daum, An Anthropology of Landscape. The Extraoridinary in oridinary, UCL Press, London 2017 (excerpts).

Week 6: Emerging Landscapes
D. Deriu, K. Kamvasinou, E. Schinkle (ed.), Emerging Landscapes. Between Production and Representation, , Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington 2014 (selected chapters).
Coconut Revolution (2001), directed by Dom Rotheroe (documentary).

Week 7: Traditional Ecological Knowledge
R. Pierotti, Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge, in his: Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology, Routledge, New York-London, 2011, p. 7-25.

Week 8: Anthropology Beyond the Human(ity)
T. Ingold, Athropology beyond Humanity, “Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society” 3, 2013, p. 5-23.
E. Kohn, How Forests Think. Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human, University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London 2013 (excerpts).

Week 9: Ethnobotany and Phytoanthropology
P. Sensarma, A. K. Ghosh, Ethnobotany and Phytoanthropology, in: R. E. Schultes, S. von Reis (ed.), Ethnobotany. Evolution of a Discipline, Timber Press, Portland/Cambridge 1995, s. 69-74.

Week 10: Anthrozoology, Zoontology and Animal Studies
D. Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, in her: Manifestly Haraway, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2016, p. 93-198.

Week 11: Multispecies Ethnography
S. E. Kirksey, S. Helmreich, The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography, “Cultural Anthropology” 4, 2010, p. 545-576.
A. L. Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford 2015 (excerpts).

Week 12: Extinction Studies
D. Bird Rose, Th. van Dooren, M. Chrulew (ed.), Extinction Studies. Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, Columbia University Press, New York 2017 (selected chapters).

Week 13: Anthropology and the Concept of the Anthropocene
H. Gibson, S. Venkateswar, Anthropological Engagement with the Anthropocene: A Critical Review, “Environment and Society: Advances in Research” 1, 2015, p. 5-27.

Week 14: Anthropology Facing Climate Changes
M. R. Dove, Introduction: the Anthropology of Climate Change, in his (ed.): The Anthropology of Climate Change. Historical Reader, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 2014, p. 1-36.

Week 15: Conclusion: Beyond Human Exceptionalism