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Interactions Between Human and Environment
Interactions Between Human and Environment
• 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