What is Ecological Anthropology? | Ecology, Environment, And How Humans Impact The World

[@AliviaBrown]

Did you know I wrote a course on human evolution? 🧬🦍🦧🐒🌱🌳 Check it out HERE: www.socratica.com/courses/human-evolution

[@michael.ringo.snyder]

I'm glad that you pointed out that humans are NOT independent actors. Reminds me of how issues are often systematic. Thank you for the video!

[@AliviaBrown]

I'm so glad, I just felt it was so important to include that because people make that mistake all the time!!

[@jamesgrosrenaudjr812]

I love ecology because it takes all kinds of science to look at the world . And I’ve been looking for ways to like humans to the environment because learning about plants and animals has me wanting to learn more about humans .

[@joelharris4399]

Do your PhD already! You're lecturing and enjoying it😊. Means you are a natural. Thanks for making anthropology a lil more engaging❤

[@AliviaBrown]

Thank you!

[@joelharris4399]

@@AliviaBrown Anytime Alivia! 😊

[@coryluskat]

If we value Alivia's mental health we don't recommend a life in academia lmao

[@joelharris4399]

@@coryluskat I meant it as a compliment. Also, pointing Alivia in the right direction, which is her academic peers as opposed to seeking validation from KZbin community (as an Anthropology student myself)

[@Machspoke]

hey alivia. Dont give up on making videos. You make really great content. I admire your work. As a subscriber I suggest you to make videos on different tribes across world by throwing light on various aspects of their lives.

[@MelatiAlam]

this explanation just remind me of social ecology by Murray Bookchin

[@coryluskat]

How did I miss this video, this is my absolute favourite side of anthro and it's so overlooked! Booknerd ecological anthropologists: Disperals by Jessica J. Lee, I am devouring it.

[@Matt-Diachronic_Anthropologist]

I enjoyed the video. Glad to hear that the anthropology club is going well!

[@AliviaBrown]

Thank you!

[@luisfilipe2023]

Nothing to really say on this one except good job Alivia. Video suggestion: how many species of human have there been?

[@AliviaBrown]

Oh wow, good one! And off the top of my head, I think currently 21 have been discovered but this is an ongoing debate...

[@siasis23]

Nature teaches us mutual dependency

[@sunidhimishra185]

Hey Alivia, I'm very much interested in psychological anthropology and I'm very curious to know career options related to it. I came across many articles but many of them were focused towards becoming professor but teaching is not something I look forward. It'll be helpful to know about it from you. Thank you so much. I appreciate your efforts.

[@Matt-Diachronic_Anthropologist]

It isn't one of the videos that I have watched yet; however, I wanted to let you know that Alivia has posted a video on the topic of psychological anthropology. I will try to paste a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip3Cl6WpedCkfKc Hope that helps!

[@AliviaBrown]

Oh of course! Yes, there are many career options in this area. Have you happened to watch any of my careers for anthropology major videos?? I think those might help get you started. A degree in psychological anthropology is very wide spread so I think many of those ideas may help

[@MimiMangetsu]

Hello Alivia! I'm going to take a course on "cultural animal studies" this autumn and I was wondering if you could do a video about anthropology and human-animal relations?🐵🐒Thank you for these videos, they have broadened my view of anthropology and made me understand why there are 4 main sub-fields in the US tradition!🙏

[@priyanklodha4925]

Hey, really enjoyed the video. Can you make something on 'Impact of globalization on indigenous economic systems along with some specfic studies. Thanks.

[@shaikhshoyeb2651]

Radcliffe brown and alivia brown ❤

[@williamlyons2450]

Hey Olivia, i was curious to know if there are any jobs in ecological anthropology besides research? I like to learn more about that subject. Thank you, i appreciate your video!

[@AliviaBrown]

Yes there definitely are! Many people go into pubic policy for example trying to change laws revolving around the environment

[@arthurmead5341]

@@AliviaBrown Pubic policy?? like manscaping?

[@MelatiAlam]

Can you tell us which campuses that have ecological anthropology? like top 10 or something

[@siasis23]

I'm also an Anthropology Graduate. Could you please help me to study Environmental Anthropology. I'm experienced in data collection, quantitative data analysis.. I'm eager to learn it..

[@张婧怡-k1b]

Hi Alivia! i ve focused you for a while and i did enjoyed what you shared in the field of Anthropology! since i m a senior student majoring in documentary in china, and i m also looking forward to applying for the master degree of visual anthropology in the uk or hk in the future, would you like to share about your opinion in this specific domain? Thanksss a lot!!

[@yansce]

I am working on writing a proposal that is in the subfield of ecological anthropology/conservation. I want to make sure I attach it to the most appropriate social theory as well, and I think that’s relativism/cultural relativism. have you done a video on this? if not, can you please discuss this theory a bit so I can learn :)

[@yansce]

don’t know how I wasn’t subscribed to you already wow! i’ve been watching your videos for months lol

[@MauriceNzuki-b9j]

Am undergraduate in anthropology what do I need to do in order to get my first class honors

[@jairoeduardojimenezsotero1779]

have you read somenthing about cultural ecology? authors like Leslie White... greetings!

[@Matt-Diachronic_Anthropologist]

White is generally associated with neo-evolutionism. Personally, I'm not a fan, but don't want to derail the comments for this video. You may be thinking of Julian H. Steward. A better place to start reading about the foundations of contemporary ecological anthropology would be Roy Rappaport, Andrew P. Vayda, and Gregory Bateson. For a post-modern take, Tim Ingold's book, The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill, is probably the best place to start. That said, Steward's work is still worth reading; and James J. Gibson, the environmental psychologist, has been very influential, especially through his concept of affordances.

[@s.ssingh6107]

When you are going to make new video

[@AliviaBrown]

Monday!

[@s.ssingh6107]

@@AliviaBrown eagerly waiting ❤️

[@KimberlyNguyen-h4s]

I took ecology and it is so difficult to passed the classes. I don’t like that classes and Professor they most give me project to do with a group partner. But I don’t like in my classes.

[@adriangee4272]

Does Ecological Anthropology include our man made environments, such as city streets? I think city design has a huge impact on our lives and culture. For example, a city designed for cars has less sense of community for its residents.

[@Matt-Diachronic_Anthropologist]

I would argue that it does include human made environments; however, I am highly influenced by semiotics, complex adaptive systems, and actor-network theory. Within archaeology Lambros Malafouris' writing on material engagement theory has been an influence on me, too. Based on your mention of city environments I think you might really enjoy a book chapter written by Michel de Certeau, entitled "Practices of Space." Also, from outside anthropology, I really recommend the book The Aesthetic Townscape, by Yoshinobu Ashihara; and a book called The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch.

[@adriangee4272]

@@johanhoppener35 Interesting, kind of like a holistic picture of our environment.

[@Matt-Diachronic_Anthropologist]

@@johanhoppener35 Hey, Johan, is your thesis available for download? It definitely sounds like something I'd like to read. I am particularly interested in post-anthropocentric perspectives. I wish I could have included more of an ecological perspective in my own thesis, but my committee wasn't interested in reviewing those human-environment interconnections. My thesis was entitled "Nearer My Farm to Thee: A Spatial Analysis of African American Settlement Patterns in Hillsborough County, Florida." However, I recently rewrote parts of it, in part to make the human-environment interactions more clear; that rewrite is also available for download, under the title "The Gladstone Alley Project: (Almost) Twenty Years Later."

[@Matt-Diachronic_Anthropologist]

@@johanhoppener35 This is my third attempt at getting this comment to stick. It looks like KZbin is preventing me from commenting again. At least they're just disappearing; I understand KZbin also sometimes makes it look like comments have posted, but only for the one that posts them. Johan, I completely understand why you need to revise your thesis before you make it available to the wider public. I do look forward to reading that revision; I have more than a passing interest in horse cultures. As a student, I produced some research on Scythian/Pazyryk cultures, although my interest more focused on anyone resisting the Greco-Roman cultural and political hegemony. My papers should both come right up with a Google search by title. The original thesis should be found within the University of South Florida's electronic theses and dissertation webpages. The revised paper should be downloadable from a Council for West Virginia Archaeology webpage. Part of why I rewrote the paper was because I was preparing to teach an urban archaeology field school, and wanted to create a general resource outlining the usefulness of such a topic for a field school. There is another archaeologist with the same first and last name out there; so, for clarification, my ORCID is 0000-0001-5653-8940, and my Registered Professional Archaeologist number is 44090910. The original thesis includes settlement pattern information for rural agricultural and rural industrial contexts; the revised paper is focused entirely on the urban context. Sorry for the truncated response...hopefully it'll take hold this time. Cheers.

[@miafeller7647]

haha im majoring in this rn

[@miafeller7647]

well political ecology

[@sonnychavez6282]

Her boyfriend is so lucky