SCOPE (Sustainability Co-Creation Programme)

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ARS300HA
Subsistence, Resource Use and Sustainability

Oribe GOHARA

Class code etc
Faculty/Graduate school SCOPE (Sustainability Co-Creation Programme)
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Year 2024
Class code C3514
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Previous Class title
Term 春学期授業/Spring
Day/Period 木3/Thu.3
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷 / Ichigaya
Classroom name 市富士‐F310
Grade 1~4
Credit(s) 2
Notes
Open Program
Open Program (Notes)
Global Open Program
Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers
Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers (Notes)
Class taught by instructors with practical experience
SDGs CP
Urban Design CP
Diversity CP
Learning for the Future CP
Carbon Neutral CP
Chiyoda Campus Consortium
Category 展開科目/Disciplinary & Elective Courses
日本社会とサステイナビリティ/Japan & Sustainability

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Outline and objectives

This course aims to examine some of the key topics and issues related to subsistence, resource use, and sustainability. By looking at case studies and ethnographic literatures, we will investigate different types of subsistence economies practiced around the world, such as hunting-gathering, reindeer herding, honey hunting, and fishery. We will learn how people have been practicing those subsistence economies and using natural resources in their everyday lives. We will look at how the relationships between people and natural environment have been formed in each subsistence activity. In addition, we also discuss the ways in which those subsistence activities are changing in today’s world. By focusing on the issues of global warming, development project, deforestation, tourism, and natural disaster, we will develop our understanding of sustainability issues those societies are facing today.

Goal

By the end of the course, students will obtain skills to examine a wide range of topics concerning resource use and sustainability. Students will also develop critical thinking skills and theoretical viewpoints to investigate issues regarding subsistence activities and environmental changes occurring widely today.

Which item of the diploma policy will be obtained by taking this class?

Among diploma policies,"DP3" is related

Default language used in class

英語 / English

Method(s)(学期の途中で変更になる場合には、別途提示します。 /If the Method(s) is changed, we will announce the details of any changes. )

This course consists of lecture, discussion and students' presentation. Feedback on assignments submitted by students will be provided in class or through the Learning Management System.

Active learning in class (Group discussion, Debate.etc.)

あり / Yes

Fieldwork in class

なし / No

Schedule

授業形態/methods of teaching:対面/face to face

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

Week1[対面/face to face]:Introduction

Course overview

Week2[対面/face to face]:Concepts and theories

Exploring the concepts of subsistence, resource use, and sustainability.
Introducing cultural anthropological approaches to these themes.

Week3[対面/face to face]:Hunter-gatherers 1

How do hunter gatherers in Amazon use natural resources in everyday lives?
How do they interact with their surrounding environment, such as animals, plants, forests and rivers?

Week4[対面/face to face]:Hunter-gatherers 2

How has the recent introduction of oil development projects affected to hunter gatherers’ life in Amazon Ecuador?

week5[対面/face to face]:Hunting 1

Subsistence hunting in Siberia. How do the Yukaghir hunters hunt and use animals?

Week6[対面/face to face]:Hunting 2

How has global warming affected to the subsistence hunting in Siberia? How did it alter
human-animal relationships?

Week7[対面/face to face]:Reindeer herding 1

What is the life of reindeer herders in Siberia? How are their communities formed?

Week8[対面/face to face]:Reindeer herding 2

Why do more and more herders choose sedentary life-styles today? How does it affect to people - reindeer - land relationships?

Week9[対面/face to face]:Honey hunting 1

How is honey hunting practiced among the Gurung in Nepal? Why is it socially,
economically, religiously important?

Week10[対面/face to face]:Honey hunting 2

What happened to their honey hunting practice when it became tourist attraction and commercialized in 2012?

Week11[対面/face to face]:Fishery 1

How do people practice fishery in Miyagi prefecture, Japan? How do they interact with
the sea and fish?

Week12[対面/face to face]:Fishery 2

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes and Tsunami. How did the Great East Japan
Earthquake damage the fishery, and people-sea relationships in Miyagi?

Week13[対面/face to face]:Fishery 3

How have people in Miyagi responded to the situation? How can anthropology
contribute to the sustainability issues caused by natural disasters?

Week14[対面/face to face]:Conclusion

Overall discussion. How are environmental, socio-economic, cultural factors
interrelated to sustainable issues in each society?

Work to be done outside of class (preparation, etc.)

Preparatory study and review time for this class are 2 hours each.

Textbooks

There are no required textbooks to purchase for this course.

References

There are some compulsory readings for each class. Reading lists are introduced in each class.

Grading criteria

Class participation and discussion 30%
one essay 30%
Students' presentation 40%

Changes following student comments

N/A

Equipment student needs to prepare

There is no equipment needed for this class.

Others

N/A