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09/09/2014
Anthropology and sustainable development
Is sustainable development for anthropologists
What anthropology can contribute to the study of development; how anthropologists approach their subject matter
How anthropology can help make development more sustainable; two case study
Biogas development in SW rural China
Potato farming in the Bolivian altiplano
Is sustainable development for anthropologists?
Reading response #3
Identify one of the three issues that stone says are central to an anthropological sustainability and in several sentences demonstrate your understanding of the issue
What anthropology can contribute to the study of sustainable development
Our understandings of culture and cultural differences
Our characteristic emphasis on
The local level
Indifenous knowledge
How the local and the extra-local interact
Five particular methodological strengths
Attention to small-scale communities
Sensitivity to cultural differences
Insistence on prior detailed knowledge
Appreciation of alternatives recognition of systemic complexity
More about the biogas case findings-the main barriers to
Farming on the Bolivian altiplano
09/11/14 SOS322
Looking ahead Quiz2 tues Ch.4
Some things you might want to know about
The green revolution
The gene revolution
The learning process approach
The GAD school of thought
Challenges to world agricultural system
Group discussion
1. What are three things of note – interesting, important, or surprising things that you have learned so far in this course
2. From Elliott Ch1-2 and the other course material covered to date, what do you think are the 1-2 greatest obstacles to a more sustainable international development?
3.
09/16/2014
Reaction paper #1 is due 10/10
Discuss Elliott CH.4
The diversity of rural livelihoods
Types of and challenges to world agricultural systems
The relationship between women and natural resource management
The capacity of local institutions and the role
Anthropology and sustainable development
Is sustainable development for anthropologists
What anthropology can contribute to the study of development; how anthropologists approach their subject matter
How anthropology can help make development more sustainable; two case study
Biogas development in SW rural China
Potato farming in the Bolivian altiplano
Is sustainable development for anthropologists?
Reading response #3
Identify one of the three issues that stone says are central to an anthropological sustainability and in several sentences demonstrate your understanding of the issue
What anthropology can contribute to the study of sustainable development
Our understandings of culture and cultural differences
Our characteristic emphasis on
The local level
Indifenous knowledge
How the local and the extra-local interact
Five particular methodological strengths
Attention to small-scale communities
Sensitivity to cultural differences
Insistence on prior detailed knowledge
Appreciation of alternatives recognition of systemic complexity
More about the biogas case findings-the main barriers to
Farming on the Bolivian altiplano
09/11/14 SOS322
Looking ahead Quiz2 tues Ch.4
Some things you might want to know about
The green revolution
The gene revolution
The learning process approach
The GAD school of thought
Challenges to world agricultural system
Group discussion
1. What are three things of note – interesting, important, or surprising things that you have learned so far in this course
2. From Elliott Ch1-2 and the other course material covered to date, what do you think are the 1-2 greatest obstacles to a more sustainable international development?
3.
09/16/2014
Reaction paper #1 is due 10/10
Discuss Elliott CH.4
The diversity of rural livelihoods
Types of and challenges to world agricultural systems
The relationship between women and natural resource management
The capacity of local institutions and the role