I want you to consider how energy (expended vs. acquired) is at the core of your own activities, behaviors, and cost/benefit decision-making (Identify one example).

I’m trying to learn for my Geography class and I’m stuck. Can you help?

I’d like to focus on energy as used by cultural ecologists to formulate and explain the social, economic, political, and cultural structure of different societies/social groups. That is, all system require energy to function and to sustain themselves over time. This true if we’re talking about a bike, a car, a human body, a factory, a building, etc. etc. Certainly it is true of social systems. Energy (its expenditure and its acquisition) is at the core of each of this week’s reading.

I want you to consider how energy (expended vs. acquired) is at the core of your own activities, behaviors, and cost/benefit decision-making (Identify one example).

Further, I’d like to hear you to reflect on how “culture” (in its many forms: tradition, ceremony, celebration, taboos, etc.) has 1) emerged (so to speak) as functional means of sustaining/ensuring this personal relationship with energy OR ALTERNATIVELY, 2) how this relationship is recognized as part and parcel of a particular cultural phenomenon or event. Think about it.