Culture and Sustainability

Use this study guide as you read the selected chapter, to help you focus on the important terms, concepts, people and places. This will also help you prepare for the quiz on this chapter.

• Agency
• Agriculture
• Anthropocene
• Anthropogenic
• Brazil nuts
• Copan (Mayan city)
• Cultural ecology
• Cultural evolutionism
• Cultural Resources
• Management
• Ecocide
• Eco-justice
• Ecologically noble savage
• Ethnobotany
• Ethnocide
• Ethnoecology
• Extractive reserve
• Exurban
• Haiti
• Harris, Marvin
• Homeostasis
• Hominin J
• ohnston, Barbara Rose
• Kayapó (cultural group)
• Map-making
• Marshallese Islanders (cultural group)
• Materialism
• Mintz, Sidney
• Multispecies ethnographies
• Murray, Gerald
• NGOs
• People-versus-park-debate
• Political ecology
• Political environmentalism
• Posey, Darrell
• Processual archaeology
• Protected areas
• Rappaport, Roy
• Sahlins, Marshall
• Shoshone (cultural group)
• Steward, Julian
• Succession
• Sustainable development
• Swidden cultivation
• Tsembaga (cultural group)
• Wilderness