Nature Culture And History

Author : Jocelyn Thorpe,Stephanie Rutherford,L. Anders Sandberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317353560

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Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research by Jocelyn Thorpe,Stephanie Rutherford,L. Anders Sandberg Pdf

This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography.

Author : K. R. Howe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082482329X

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Nature, Culture, and History by K. R. Howe Pdf

Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.

Author : Davydd J. Greenwood,William A. Stini
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037257008

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Nature, Culture, and Human History by Davydd J. Greenwood,William A. Stini Pdf

Author : Prof. Alan H. Goodman,Prof. Deborah Heath,M. Susan Lindee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520929975

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Genetic Nature/Culture by Prof. Alan H. Goodman,Prof. Deborah Heath,M. Susan Lindee Pdf

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious—or more fraught with paradox—than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. Individual essays address issues raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution, and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases; gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals. The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology, nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of genetics, Genetic Nature/Culture is a model of fruitful dialogue, presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the two-cultures debate.

Author : Davydd James Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164614413

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Nature, culture, and human history by Davydd James Greenwood Pdf

Author : Kjetil Fallan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780429891977

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The Culture of Nature in the History of Design by Kjetil Fallan Pdf

The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and nature have a deeper and broader history than contemporary discourse on sustainable design and ecological design might imply, this book presents case studies ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century and from Singapore to Mexico. It gathers scholarship on a broad range of fields/practices, from urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture, to engineering design, industrial design, furniture design and graphic design. From adobe architecture to the atomic bomb, from the bonsai tree to Biosphere 2, from pesticides to photovoltaics, from rust to recycling – the culture of nature permeates the history of design. As an activity and a profession always operating in the borderlands between human and non-human environments, design has always been part of the environmental problem, whilst also being an indispensable part of the solution. The book ventures into domains as diverse as design theory, research, pedagogy, politics, activism, organizations, exhibitions, and fiction and trade literature to explore how design is constantly making and unmaking the environment and, conversely, how the environment is both making and unmaking design. This book will be of great interest to a range of scholarly fields, from design education and design history to environmental policy and environmental history.

Author : Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780238913

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Swamp by Anthony Wilson Pdf

Throughout history, swamps have been idealized and demonized, purged and protected. Today, they are simultaneously considered metaphorical places of evil, pestilence, and death, and treasured as diverse biological ecosystems teeming with life. Covering not only swamps and bogs but also marshes and wetlands, Swamp ventures into the cultural and ecological histories of these mysterious, mythologized, and misunderstood landscapes. Anthony Wilson takes readers into swamps across the globe, from the freshwater marshes of Botswana’s tremendous Okavango delta, to the notable swamps between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to the peat bogs in Russia, the British Isles, and Scandinavia, which have been used as energy sources for centuries. It explores ideas and representations of wetlands across centuries, cultures, and continents, considering legend and folklore, mythology, literature, film, and natural and cultural history. As it plumbs the murky depths of swamps from the distant past to an uncertain future, Swamps provides an engaging, accessible, informative, and lavishly illustrated journey into these fascinating landscapes.

Author : Peter Michael Harman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0300151977

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The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680-1860 by Peter Michael Harman Pdf

Harman examines the emergence of modern ideas about natural history in Britain from the era of Newtonian science and natural theology to the equally radical Darwinism of the mid 19th century.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401701495

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Nature Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Author : Alexander Wilson
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 9780921284529

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The Culture of Nature by Alexander Wilson Pdf

In this celebrated work, Alexander Wilson examines environments built over the past fifty years, as humans have continued to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and sometimes re-enchant a natural world in convulsion. Extensively illustrated.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 063119021X

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The Problem of Nature by David Arnold Pdf

This book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be.

Author : Philippe Descola
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226145006

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Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola Pdf

“Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French edition Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture—as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth—is often seen as essentially different from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the “four ontologies” —animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism—to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh. “A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go—and what we might imagine in its place.” —Somatosphere “The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Anthropologie Structurale.” —Bruno Latour, author of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence “Descola’s challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Author : John P. Herron,Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0826319165

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Human/nature by John P. Herron,Andrew G. Kirk Pdf

Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.

Author : Rebecca Zorach,Michael W. Phillips
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780236131

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Gold by Rebecca Zorach,Michael W. Phillips Pdf

Gleaming and perfect, gold has beguiled humankind for many millennia, attracting treasure hunters, adorning the living and the dead, and symbolizing wealth, power, divinity, and eternity. This book offers a lively, critical look at the cultural history of this most regal metal, examining its importance across many cultures and time periods and the many places where it has been central, from religious ceremonies to colonial expeditions to modern science. Rebecca Zorach and Michael W. Phillips Jr. cast gold as a substance of paradoxes. Its softness at once makes it useless for most building projects yet highly suited for the exploration of form and the transmission—importantly—of images, such as the faces of rulers on currency. It has been the icon of value—the surest bet in times of uncertain markets—yet also of valuelessness, something King Midas learned the hard way. And, as Zorach and Phillips detail, it has been at the center of many clashes between cultures all throughout history, the unfortunate catalyst of countless blood lusts. Ultimately, they show that the questions posed by our relentless desire for gold are really questions about value itself. Lavishly illustrated, this book offers a shimmering exploration of the mythology, economy, aesthetics, and perils at the center of this simple—yet irresistible—substance.

Author : Veronica Strang
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780234830

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Water by Veronica Strang Pdf

As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In Water, Veronic Strang ladles through the rich history of our interaction with water, offering an accessible examination of the crucial properties that make water so unique alongside the complex story of our evolving relationship with it. As Strang shows, our attitudes about water and the things that we rely on it for have changed dramatically over time. Once a mystical source of regenerative powers, it has since played various roles as our attitudes about hygiene, health, and disease have developed; as it has become useful to our industry; as agriculture has become ever more complex; and, of course, as we have learned to make money from it. Today water—who controls it, and how—is one of the largest issues facing our society, influencing everything from the welfare of the billions of people living on earth to the vitality of its natural habitats. Balancing history, science, and environmental and cultural studies, Strang offers an important, multi-faceted view of a critical resource.