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The Greenhouse Effect
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a natural phenomenon that keepts the Earth's surface warm...without greenhouse gases life as we know it wouldn't exist...these gases allow sunlight to enter and prevent heat from leaving the atmosphere
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Climate Change
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preferred over term global warming, rising temperatures, changes in sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects
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Ecological Anthropology
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field that focuses on how cultural beliefs and practices helped human populations adapt to their environments, and how people used elements of their culture to maintain their ecosystems
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Ethnoecology
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a societies set of environmental practices and perceptions, that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society
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Westernization
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the influence of WEstern expansion on indigenous peoples and their cultures
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Indigenized
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when forces from world centers enter new societies they modify to fit the local culture
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Postmodernity
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describes our time and situation: today's world in flux, these people on the move who have learned to manage multiple identities depending on place and context
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Postmodern
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refers to the blurring and breakdown of established rules or standards, categories, distinctions, and boundaries
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Postmodernsim
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a style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism, beginning in the 1970's, postmodern architecture rejects the rules, geometric order, and austerity of modernism
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Essentialism
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the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identitydeveloped
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