ABSTRACT
Cultural ecology anthropology focuses on how people adapt to their environments. Customs that may seem strange or less civilized often are adaptations to ecological features. Anthropologists use the term “habitus” to see how environments influence ways of thinking as well as economics. We also recognize that for over 11,000 years, humans have forced environments to adapt to them, the human inhabitants, so much that it is proposed to call these last 11,000 years the Anthropocene, the era of humans affecting the planet.
