ANTHRO 2413 - Comparative Human Ecologies

Prof. Shayla Monroe

M 9-11:45am

This course surveys of wide variety approaches to ecological studies in Africa and places them in dialogue with paleoecology and environmental archaeology. We will interrogate the relationships between the following approaches: Ecology in Africa (as an academic discipline), Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Africa, Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology, Cultural Ecology and Human Behavioral Ecology, Political Ecology, Historical Ecology, De-colonial Ecology and Feminist Ecology. While the geographic focus of the course leans heavily towards African peoples and places, the theoretical scope should be useful to student interest in human-environmental studies anywhere in the world.