Chapter 6

Question 1

Environmental Anthropology

Answer 1

The field that studies how different societies understand interact with and make changes to the natural world

Question 2

Cultural landscape not

Answer 2

The culturally specific images knowledge and concepts of the physical landscape that help shape human relations with that landscape

Question 3

Foodways

Answer 3

Structured beliefs and behaviors surrounding the production distribution and consumption of food

Question 4

Modes of subsistence

Answer 4

The social relationships and practices necessary for procuring producing and distributing food

Question 5

Foraging

Answer 5

Obtaining food by searching for it as opposed to growing or raising it

Question 6

Horticulture

Answer 6

The cultivation of gardens or small fields to meet the basic needs of a household

Question 7

Swidden agriculture

Answer 7

Farming method in tropical regions in which the farmer slashed and burns a small area of forest to release plant nutrients into the soil

Question 8

Pastoralism

Answer 8

The practice of human husbandry

Question 9

Animal husbandry

Answer 9

The breeding care and use of domestic herding animals such as cattle camels goats horses llamas reindeer and yaks

Question 10

Intensification

Answer 10

Process that increase agricultural yields

Question 11

Industrial agriculture

Answer 11

The application of industrial principles to farming

Question 12

Ethnoscience

Answer 12

The study of how people classify things in the world usually by considering some range or set of meaning

Question 13

Ethnobiology

Answer 13

The sub field of ethnoscience that studies how people in non Western societies name and codify living things

Question 14

Traditional ecological knowledge

Answer 14

Indigenous ecological knowledge and its relationship with resource management strategy

Question 15

Carrying capacity

Answer 15

The population an area can support

Question 16

Green revolution

Answer 16

The transformation of agriculture in the third world beginning in the 1940a through agriculture’s research technology transfer and infrastructure development

Question 17

Food security

Answer 17

Access to sufficient nutritious food to sustain an active and healthy life

Question 18

Political ecology

Answer 18

The field if study that focuses on the linkages between political-economic power social inequality and ecological destruction

Question 19

Nutrition Transition

Answer 19

The combination of changes in diet toward energy dense foods (high in calories fat sugar) and declines in physical activity

Question 20

Anthropogenic landscapes

Answer 20

Landscapes modified by human action in the past