Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to
A. prescribe top-down solutions to ecological problems.
B. contribute to development projects that sometimes, out of necessity, replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.
C. find solutions, acknowledging that ecosystems management involves multiple levels.
D. promote the concepts of environmental rights, even at the expense of cultural rights.
E. work closely with state agencies, among whom they do most of their ethnography, to promote institutional change.
Answer: C
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