Ethnoecology
Code
711001063
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Amélia Frazão Moreira
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Develop knowledge of Ethnoecology while interdisciplinary discipline that allows to understand the cultural appropriation of ecological
systems.
2. Promote the theoretical tools of Ethnoecology in relation to theoretical frameworks of Anthropology
3. Increasing the capabilities of conceptual work in Ethnoecology research.
4. Develop the ability to recognize and integrate knowledge about the ecological reality in order to identify their social and cultural complexities
5. Learn Ethnoecologys specific methodologies
7.Develop analysis, systematization and critical skills.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. Historical context of Ethnoecology. Ecological approaches in ethnographic classic studies. Ecological Anthropology. The Ethnoecology as a
discipline: from Conklin of Toledo.
2 Social differentiation in resources access. Gender, biodiversity and natural resources management. Political ecology, power and cultural
diversity.
3. Ethnoecological knowledge as \"situated\" knowledge. Debates about ethnobiological classifications and \"traditional ecological knowledge\".
4. Cultural perspectives on abiotic elements. Cosmologies and social practices: soil and climate.
5. Plants, animals and men. Systematic analysis of the interactions between humans and nonhumans. Social practices, conflicts and
representations of nature.
6. Methodological tools of Ethnoecology. Cultural domains and consensus analysis. Etnobiological techniques of research. Application of
ecological methodological procedures: plots, transects and diversity indices.
Bibliography
ALVES, A.; SOUTO, F. & PERONI, N. (orgs.), 2010, Etnoecologia em perspectiva: natureza, cultura e conservação, Recife: NUPEEA.
ELLEN, Roy e FUKUI, K. (eds.), 1996, Redefining Nature. Ecology, Culture and Domestication, Oxford, BERG.
HAENN, Nora & WILK, Richard (eds.), 2006, The Environment in Anthropology. A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living, New York:
New York University Press.
NAZAREA, Virginia (ed.), 1999, Ethnoecology, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
TOLEDO, Vitor, 2002, Ethnoecology: a conceptual framework for the study of indigenous knowledge of nature in STEPP, J.; WYNDHAM, E. &
ZARGER, R. (eds.) Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity, USA: University of Georgia Press, 511-522.
Teaching method
Lectures and practical classes: teaching methodology that seek to combine the exposition and discussion of theoretical concepts with practical
analytical work based on case studies.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: Class attendance (15%); Presentation and discussion of a case-study (25%); Written test (20%); Final paper (40%).