3. Nature Culture 2 Flashcards

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How can cosmology rule nature?

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Decides how humans react with nature

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Who is the creator in Tukano culture?

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Sun Gods

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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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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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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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What do some people think alters our life?

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Star sings, zodiac signs

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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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What do some see the wilderness as?

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An entirely constructed invention

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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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What changes environmentalism?

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Out perception of it

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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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Who said the time had come to rethink wilderness

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William Cronan

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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

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What is wilderness
A human creation
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What did wilderness use to mean?
Savage, desolate, barren
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In the age when wilderness often meant savage ness what reigned?
Christianity and religion
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When did environmentalism become clear to the public and people in the us?
The damming of the Tuolummne river in Yosemite national park
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What sort of sites in the us were called national parks?
What humans thought were sublime cronan
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What do some link the sublime environment to?
A religious experience
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What did turner say about the American frontier?
It was passing away
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What is the main way we as humans alters the environment?
Farms
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Are farms natural
No, change the land to how we want it
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Who would wilderness turkey be wilderness?
If we could go into it without leaving a trace
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What can adaptive survival be seen as?
Something that increases survival it self
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What binds the tukano to their habitat?
Myth and tradition. Habits by their forefathers
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While we may view their habitat as natural how do the tukano view it
As man made
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What is the energy relationship in the tukano universe
Energy output is greatly related to the input
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What is the tukano knowledge of the natural world?
High and detailed
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What does Gomez pompa and Andrea Kay’s day about environmentalism?
Environmental policy and education are based on western beliefs
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What is the general consensus for humans impact on the environment
Inverse relationship between humans actions and the environments
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What is the falsely assumed act about the wilderness
That it is unpopulated
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What has the western world also seen wilderness as
A challenge
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What organisms can help to produce clouds
Algae, form nucleus around which the cloud is formed
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What did lovelock say about mans destructiveness
Modern man is just more efficient at doing bad things
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How do the Tukano study their natural world
by looking at animals, some think this is how they will evolve in the future
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Where do the tukano live
north west amazonian rainforest
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Why do tukano people think animals go extinct
for no obeying particular circumstances or by not adapting
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How do tukano peoples regulate population
use herbs as contraceptives that causes short term sterility
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Why are couples with lots of children critisised
because its saying they are disobeying the sun gods and putting the community at risk
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where do most rural conservation ideas come from
urban areas, different idea on what is right
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Why in some cases are rural settings perceived as urban
native american tribes, have homes in the forest, they consider these as unnatural
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How much of the world did scientists find had been explored by humans
nearly all of it, is there really any wilderness, (gomez pompa, adrea kraus
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Politically what do greens think is most important
the community rather than the state
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How do greens think is the only way to solve our envrionmental problems
by wholesale economic change
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Who do greens think should take envrionmental actions
everyone
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When do green think we should produce goods
when society needs them no before hand to make profit
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What did harper list in 1990
all things that might be adopted but at different likelyhoods of them happening