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Ecology and Culture

Abandoning previous, widely held assumptions about the balance of nature and about distinct, bounded, and well-integrated societies or cultures whose stable adaptations to their environments can be identified, analyzed, and explained, the seminar focuses on the flux rather than the balance of nature and on how variable human actions and the ideas behind them relate to that flux or are part of it. Seminar presentations are primarily concerned with showing either complex and contingent interactions of people and their environments or methods and theories for studying and analyzing such interactions.

Seminar: #471
Founded: 1964

Seminar Administration

Chair:
Miguel A. Pinedo-Vasquez
Post-doctoral research scientist
Columbia University, Department of Anthropology
212.854.8178
map57@columbia.edu

Rapporteur:
Ashley Duval
Columbia University
aed2122@columbia.edu

POLITICS
LITERATURE, RELIGION AND THE ARTS
CULTURAL STUDIES
Ecology and Culture
Israel and Jewish Studies
Slavic History and Culture
Culture, Power, and Boundaries
Irish Studies
Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Arabic Studies
Neo-Confucian Studies
Jazz Studies
Disability Studies
Modern Greek Seminar
Cultural Memory
HISTORY
EDUCATION AND PUBLIC MEDIA
SCIENCE
REGIONAL STUDIES
SOCIETY
ALPHABETICAL LISTING