The Nature Writer Barry Lopez Spent Time with the Inuit

question 98

Multiple Choice

The nature writer Barry Lopez spent time with the Inuit of the Arctic and concluded that hunting societies had different attitudes about the land than industrial ones because "the focus of a hunter in a hunting society was not killing animals but attending to the myriad relationships he understood bound him into the world he occupied with them." What kind of attitude do hunting societies have?

• A) Judeo-Christian
• B) the new ecological paradigm
• C) human exemptionalism
• D) anthropocentric
• E) androcentric

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