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1. Environmental determinism
"Environment is the determinant
of cultural form"
2. Environmental
possibilism
"Environment is the screen of
cultural traits and setting the
framework for cultural
development"
Why do indigenous
people in the tropics
practice shifting
cultivation?
Interrelationship
between the human and
environment
Evolution of relationships
between human and
environment
3 eras
1. Human in nature
modern human (Homo sapiens sapiens)
evolve 40,000 years ago
about 30,000 years living as "hunter-
gatherers"
existed in many different ecosystems from
tropics to temperate
acted like other omnivorous species