Question

The term "cultural ecology" was coined in the mid 20th century by Julian Steward. Why is this concept important in understanding human interaction with the environment?

Answer 1

Cultural ecology is human adaptation in social and physical environment.human adaptation means in both biological and cultural process that enable population to survive and reproduce within changing environment.so cultural ecology helps human to understand the environment and their interaction with environment .culture ecology also important for understanding interaction people to each other in environment context.cultural ecology helps to understand diffrent ecological condition of environment and cultural adaptation.foe example , cultural ecileco is a action is the relationship between Indian people and cow .cow is origin of food like milk and Indian regarded as God.so they scored to kill cow.

Human interaction with environment can possible through cultural ecology where interaction between human social system and ecology sytem take place.