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3. Nature Culture 2 Flashcards

1
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How can cosmology rule nature?

A

Decides how humans react with nature

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2
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Who is the creator in Tukano culture?

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Sun Gods

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3
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Where do the tukano live?

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Colombia, in the rainforest

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What are the 3 layered cosmos to the tukano universe

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Flat earth, celestial vault, place of bliss beneath the earth

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What regulates tukano population?

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Limited number of people protected by the spirits

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What do the tukano believe about the universe?

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Not a single event but a continuous one

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When can humans remove things from the environment

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Only when conditions are right

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What do neo classical people views on environmental science

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Self interest and exploitation

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When can humans take food in the tukano universe?

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Only during certain conditions

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10
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When is energy conserved

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When turned into nourishment

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I’m tukano culture how does the individual attribute to the whole?

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Each person is part of a larger group

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12
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What causes an illness in tukano culture

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External agent, revenge of game animals, the ill will of other people

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13
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Who diagnoses illness?

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Shamans

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14
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How does the shaman respond to illnesses?

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He invokes new regulatory controls

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15
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What do some people think alters our life?

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Star sings, zodiac signs

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16
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What is environmental possibilism

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Environment does not directly cause specific developments, the presence or absence of soecific environmental factors

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What is the difference between truth in postmodernism and modernism

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Modernity have one truth postmerderism have no single truth

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18
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What do some see the wilderness as?

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An entirely constructed invention

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19
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What are areas of outstanding natural beauty?

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Areas designated to keep them natural, but what is natural

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20
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What changes environmentalism?

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Out perception of it

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21
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What are the critiques of constructivism?

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Shows that the environment has no role at all

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22
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Who said the time had come to rethink wilderness

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William Cronan

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23
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What do Americans often regard of the wilderness?

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The last place where man has taken hold of nature

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What did Henry David Thoreau day about wilderness

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In wilderness is the preservation of the world

25
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What is wilderness

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A human creation

26
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What did wilderness use to mean?

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Savage, desolate, barren

27
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In the age when wilderness often meant savage ness what reigned?

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Christianity and religion

28
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When did environmentalism become clear to the public and people in the us?

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The damming of the Tuolummne river in Yosemite national park

29
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What sort of sites in the us were called national parks?

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What humans thought were sublime cronan

30
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What do some link the sublime environment to?

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A religious experience

31
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What did turner say about the American frontier?

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It was passing away

32
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What is the main way we as humans alters the environment?

A

Farms

33
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Are farms natural

A

No, change the land to how we want it

34
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Who would wilderness turkey be wilderness?

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If we could go into it without leaving a trace

35
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What can adaptive survival be seen as?

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Something that increases survival it self

36
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What binds the tukano to their habitat?

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Myth and tradition. Habits by their forefathers

37
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While we may view their habitat as natural how do the tukano view it

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As man made

38
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What is the energy relationship in the tukano universe

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Energy output is greatly related to the input

39
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What is the tukano knowledge of the natural world?

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High and detailed

40
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What does Gomez pompa and Andrea Kay’s day about environmentalism?

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Environmental policy and education are based on western beliefs

41
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What is the general consensus for humans impact on the environment

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Inverse relationship between humans actions and the environments

42
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What is the falsely assumed act about the wilderness

A

That it is unpopulated

43
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What has the western world also seen wilderness as

A

A challenge

44
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What organisms can help to produce clouds

A

Algae, form nucleus around which the cloud is formed

45
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What did lovelock say about mans destructiveness

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Modern man is just more efficient at doing bad things

46
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How do the Tukano study their natural world

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by looking at animals, some think this is how they will evolve in the future

47
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Where do the tukano live

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north west amazonian rainforest

48
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Why do tukano people think animals go extinct

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for no obeying particular circumstances or by not adapting

49
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How do tukano peoples regulate population

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use herbs as contraceptives that causes short term sterility

50
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Why are couples with lots of children critisised

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because its saying they are disobeying the sun gods and putting the community at risk

51
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where do most rural conservation ideas come from

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urban areas, different idea on what is right

52
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Why in some cases are rural settings perceived as urban

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native american tribes, have homes in the forest, they consider these as unnatural

53
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How much of the world did scientists find had been explored by humans

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nearly all of it, is there really any wilderness, (gomez pompa, adrea kraus

54
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Politically what do greens think is most important

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the community rather than the state

55
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How do greens think is the only way to solve our envrionmental problems

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by wholesale economic change

56
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Who do greens think should take envrionmental actions

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everyone

57
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When do green think we should produce goods

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when society needs them no before hand to make profit

58
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What did harper list in 1990

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all things that might be adopted but at different likelyhoods of them happening

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