The course focuses on the ecology of human societies human-environment relationships, with reference to cultural ecology and issues surrounding sustainable development. The ecology of human societies is about connections between ecological and human social, cultural, and organizational processes. Based on selected works of ecological anthropologists, this course focuses on the dynamic relationships between human cultures and their ecological environments. It uses basic concepts of anthropology, including the concept of culture as a dynamic system of learned behaviours and beliefs, to better understand how human beings adapt to and change their physical and social surroundings.
Ngamjahao Kigpen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His areas of research include environmental sociology, political sociology, cultural politics, ethnicity and nationalism in northeast India. He has been contributing research papers to reputed international peer-reviewed journals. He teaches ‘The Study of Society’, ‘Environment and Development’, ‘Concepts and Ideologies in Social Life’, ‘Sociology of Religion’, ‘Sociological Perspectives on Modernity’, and ‘Research Methods in Sociology’ at IIT Guwahati.
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