Anthropology

Assignment 4 – Due April 18

At the beginning of chapter 11, your textbook has a photograph that shows intensive landscape terracing that enables communities to farm on steep slopes. Since the time that humans first began producing food, we have made modifications to the landscape around us to benefit ourselves economically, i.e., to increase production. Think of three examples of human alteration to/of our environment that have been intended to benefit us. (Probably you should make these three separate paragraphs, hint hint). These may be practices from human history, or present-day practices, or a mixture of these. Who is supposed to benefit from these changes to the earth? Who actually benefits (i.e., do the intended beneficiaries actually reap the benefit)? Who gets left out, or suffers as a result of these landscape/environmental modifications?

** Be sure your name is on the assignment itself, not just the email to which you attach it.**

Your total should be 750-800 words (2-3 pages double-spaced). Remember, this is replacing part of an exam grade, so it should be given adequate time and attention, not hurriedly dashed off five minutes before the deadline. :-)