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Understand how an anthropological perspective addresses contemporary global issues, in particular, how these issues affect the livelihoods of indigenous peoples around the world. |
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Understand the factors leading to an accelerated climate change and the potential impact on more vulnerable populations and environments. |
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Know what ecological anthropology is and how indigenous ethnoecologies increasingly are being challenged by global forces that work to exploit and degrade—and that sometimes aim to protect—the environment. |
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Identify attempts to impose a global ecological morality without due attention to cultural variation and autonomy as an intervention philosophy. |
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Understand the factors resulting in deforestation and how they result in the loss of global biodiversity. |
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Understand how groups resist domination and how individuals exercise their agency in this process. In particular, you should know the difference between public and hidden transcripts, and the various forms that resistance can take. |
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Know what cultural imperialism entails and how the mass media and popular culture have been used to both promote and resist cultural imperialism. |
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Know what postmodernity is and how it relates to the modern world system. |
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Understand the meaning of the term indigenous peoples, as well as the dynamic character of identities. |