HUMANS AND ENVIRONMENT ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

IUAES INTER CONGRESS 2016

4 - 9 May 2016, DUBROVNIK, CROATIA
Call for papers submission deadline: 31 JANUARY, 2016
For further details visit http://iuaes2016.com/all-panels/page/7/
518 Panel 30.09.2015 @ 06:21:35 Thangam Muthu Sudalaiyandi
Panel title:
Humans and environment anthropological perspective
Panel short abstract:
The spread of humans has profound impact on environment. Currently the increasing interest
in the environment has created the potential contributions of anthropologists to the
environment. This panel will discuss the anthropological perspectives on cultural
understandings of the environment.
Panel keywords:
Anthropology, Environment, Humans
Panel Text:
The spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a profound impact on
large areas of the environment and millions of species worldwide. Humans create complex
social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups from families and
kinship networks to political states. They subsequently established various forms of
government, religion and culture around the world. Curiosity and the human desire to
understand the influence of environment and to explain and manipulate its phenomena has
provided the foundation for developing science, philosophy, mythology, religion,
anthropology and numerous other fields of knowledge.
The anthropological studies emphasized on peoples local knowledge and use of their
environments, based often on years of painstaking observation carried out in the peoples
knowledge provides a broader perspective of understanding. The anthropologists also
addressed topics like rituals, beliefs in spirit and holy sites, ideas of human birth and

regeneration, origin of mankind and the consubstantiality of human life. And then they were
not just concerned with technical or ecological questions, but with the construction of
knowledge and the power and pressures behind choices and decisions regarding peoples
cultural and physical environments. Currently the increasing interest in the environment
generally and also in specificity of local environments has created and highlighted the
potential contributions of anthropologists to our understanding of environment.
This panel will discuss the relationship between humans and environment, and crucially,
anthropological perspectives on cultural understandings of the environment.

I am interested in receiving paper proposals which present new and unpublished researches in
the above said topic or relevant themes. All submission should be made on the official website of
conference

http://iuaes2016.com/submit-paper/
Select Paper Topic: Humans and environment anthropological perspective
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For further information and enquiries, please contact the panel convener Dr. M.S.Thangam, Associate
professor,

Sarah

Tucker

College,

Tirunelveli,

E.mail: msthangamus@yahoo.com / msthangamus@gmail.com

Tamil

Nadu,

South

India.