Find a Cultural Group
Investigate any cultural group that you choose and want to learn more about (past or present time).
Answer Focus Questions
–Describe the relationship between your cultural group, their environment, and/or belief system that provides subsistence and survival.
-Expand on the unique features of the culture that stand out regarding social structure, kinship systems, tools, adaptation, trade, etc.
-Choose one example from this list and examine your cultural group’s use of any environmental or sustainable practices:
-Are there lessons learned from industrial agriculturalists to reduce costs and adopt renewal resources through solar, wind power, biodiesel, or grey water recycling?
-Are there lessons learned from horticulturalists or agriculturalists to mitigate deforestation, habitat loss, and/or disease, use slash and burn agriculture, or rotate crops?
-Are there lessons learned from pastoralists or foragers to regenerate plant resources, save water, or regenerate the desert by moving camps or livestock?
-Explain how the cultural group’s traditional way(s) of life are becoming modernized to adapt to a changing environment, government policies, or any other reason for adapting their tradition way of life.
