Environmental anthropology refers to the interdisciplinary study of
the interactions between human populations and the environmental
systems within which they exist.  In this graduate level course we
will be concerned not only with the theories which characterize this
field, the history of those theories, and the methods used to carry
them out but also with how to design research that links biophysical
variables to social variables within an environmental research
program.

Required books:

Moran, Emilio F.  Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological
Anthropology, 2nd edition. 2000, Westview
Kempton, W. et al.   Environmental values in American Culture, 1997
MIT Press

Netting, R.   Smallholders, Householders: The Ecology of
Intensification, 1993, Stanford

Moran, Emilio F.   The Ecosystem Approach in Anthropology: From
Concept to Practice. 1990

Durham and Painter, eds.   The Social Causes of Environmental
Destruction in Latin America, 1992. Michigan


Course Requirements: Keeping up with the reading is job #1
A Paper Proposal is due after 3 weeks.  It must include a "Statement
of Problem, procedures and a "Preliminary Annotated Bibliography" (20%
of grade)
Final paper due on the last class meeting date (counts 40% of
grade).