The Culture Of Cultivation

Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000098457

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The Culture of Cultivation by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto Pdf

By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing. The illustrated collection of essays written by academics, researchers and experts in the field seeks to balance and redirect a current approach to landscape architecture that prioritizes a narrow definition of the regional in an effort to tackle questions of continuous urban growth and its impact on the environment. It argues that an emphasis on conurbation, which occurs at the expense of the rural, often ignores the reality that certain cultivation and management practices taking place on land set aside for production can be as harmful to the environment as is unchecked urbanization, contributing to loss of biodiverstiy, soil erosion and climate change. By contrast, the book argues that by expanding the expertise of design professionals to include the productive, food systems, soil conservation and the preservation of cultural landscapes, landscape architects would be better equipped to participate in the stewardship of our planet. Written primarily for landscape practitioners and academics, cultural and environmental historians and conservationists, The Culture of Cultivation will appeal to anyone interested in a thorough rethinking of the role and agency of landscape architecture.

Author : Ira Berlin,Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813914213

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Cultivation and Culture by Ira Berlin,Philip D. Morgan Pdf

So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery- historians, anthropologists, and sociologists- to explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves. The authors focus on the interrelationships between the demands of particular crops, the organization of labor, the nature of the labor force, and the character of agricultural technology. They show the full complexity of the institution of chattel bondage in the New World and suggest why and how slavery varied from place to place and time to time.

Author : Frieda Knobloch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862544

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The Culture of Wilderness by Frieda Knobloch Pdf

In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in the broad context of European and classical Roman agricultural history. Knobloch shows how western land, plants, animals, and people were subjugated in the name of cultivation and improvement. Illuminating the cultural significance of plows, livestock, trees, grasses, and even weeds, she demonstrates that discourse about agriculture portrays civilization as the emergence of a colonial, socially stratified, and bureaucratic culture from a primitive, feminine, and unruly wilderness. Specifically, Knobloch highlights the displacement of women from their historical role as food gatherers and producers and reveals how Native American land-use patterns functioned as a form of cultural resistance. Describing the professionalization of knowledge, Knobloch concludes that both social and biological diversity have suffered as a result of agricultural 'progress.'

Author : Shihkuan Hsu,Yuh-Yin Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812872241

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Education as Cultivation in Chinese Culture by Shihkuan Hsu,Yuh-Yin Wu Pdf

Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared to Western models of education. The book starts with a discussion of human nature in Chinese schools of philosophy and levels of goodness. Following the philosophical background is a presentation of how cultivation is practiced in Chinese culture from prenatal through high school education. The case studies focus both on how students are cultivated as they become members of Chinese society, and on what role teachers play in cultivating the children in school. In addition, supports from Chinese educational institutions, including public schools, families, and organizations such as private cram schools, are introduced and explained. In closing, the book presents a critique of the modern school reform movement and the conflicts between the reform proposals and traditional practices. Based on the collective work of Taiwanese researchers in the fields of education, history and anthropology, the book identifies the purpose of education as cultivating virtue in a process of creating an ideal person who serves society, and describes the way teachers have carried on this tradition despite its faltering status in contemporary educational discourse and in the face of reform movements.

Author : Henry Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Agricultural chemistry
ISBN : UCAL:$B75301

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The Culture of Farm Crops by Henry Stewart Pdf

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271097916

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Farming for Us All by Michael Bell Pdf

"Explores the sustainability of American Agriculture, and possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents"--

Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786391797

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Shifting Cultivation Policies by Malcolm Cairns Pdf

Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive analysis of past and present policy highlights successes and failures and emphasizes the importance of getting it right for the future. This book is enhanced with supplementary resources. The addendum chapters can be found at: www.cabi.org/openresources/91797

Author : Audrey M. Dentith,Wendy Griswold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119383512

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Ecojustice Adult Education: Theory and Practice in the Cultivation of the Cultural Commons by Audrey M. Dentith,Wendy Griswold Pdf

As ecological issues increase and concern worldwide is mounting about the changing nature of work and cultural life, the field of adult education must respond. Adult education holds much potential for its ability to highlight cultural knowledge, promote change, and maximize the capacity of adults to work together in strengthening mutually supportive communities that contribute to a sustainable future. It is imperative that we (re)educate adults about productive but sustainable work and stronger local community living within an understanding of the relational being and the interdependency of all things. This edited collection explores the cultural roots of the ecological/cultural crisis and its relationship to adult education. The development of sound practices and new cultural understandings among adults are emphasized. Certainly, there exists evidence of small grassroots work that builds hope and skills for the coming of a new age of sustainable and just life. This volume discusses the: Connections between sustainability, environmental and ecojustice education, Forms of radical sustainability adult education, Established cultural institutions as potential agents of change, Principles of ecojustice education, and Implementation of these principles in formal and community education settings. This is the 153rd volume of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

Author : Dorothée Imbert
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Sustainable agriculture
ISBN : 0884024040

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Food and the City by Dorothée Imbert Pdf

Food and the City explores the physical, social, and political relations between the production of food and urban settlements. Essays offer a variety of perspectives--from landscape and architectural history to geography--on the multiple scales and ideologies of productive landscapes across the globe from the sixteenth century to the present.

Author : Michael Leslie,Timothy Raylor
Publisher : Pinter Pub Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 071852148X

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Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England by Michael Leslie,Timothy Raylor Pdf

Author : Michael Leslie,Timothy Raylor
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029156067

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Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England by Michael Leslie,Timothy Raylor Pdf

Author : Peter Lund Simmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590911515

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Tropical agriculture, a treatise on the culture, preparation, commerce and consumption of products of the vegetable kingdom by Peter Lund Simmonds Pdf

Author : Penny Edwards
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824861759

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Cambodge by Penny Edwards Pdf

This strikingly original study of Cambodian nationalism brings to life eight turbulent decades of cultural change and sheds new light on the colonial ancestry of Pol Pot’s murderous dystopia. Penny Edwards recreates the intellectual milieux and cultural traffic linking Europe and empire, interweaving analysis of key movements and ideas in the French Protectorate of Cambodge with contemporary developments in the Métropole. From the naturalist Henri Mouhot’s expedition to Angkor in 1860 to the nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh’s short-lived premiership in 1945, this history of ideas tracks the talented Cambodian and French men and women who shaped the contours of the modern Khmer nation. Their visions and ambitions played out within a shifting landscape of Angkorean temples, Parisian museums, Khmer printing presses, world’s fairs, Buddhist monasteries, and Cambodian youth hostels. This is cross-cultural history at its best. With its fresh take on the dynamics of colonialism and nationalism, Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation will become essential reading for scholars of history, politics, and society in Southeast Asia. Edwards’ nuanced analysis of Buddhism and her consideration of Angkor’s emergence as a national monument will be of particular interest to students of Asian and European religion, museology, heritage studies, and art history. As a highly readable guide to Cambodia’s recent past, it will also appeal to specialists in modern French history, cultural studies, and colonialism, as well as readers with a general interest in Cambodia.

Author : J. H. Walden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89031391865

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Soil Culture by J. H. Walden Pdf

Author : Assistant Professor of Geography Douglas E Deur,Douglas E. Deur,Nancy J. Turner,Professor of Environmental Studies Nancy J Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0295995777

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Keeping It Living by Assistant Professor of Geography Douglas E Deur,Douglas E. Deur,Nancy J. Turner,Professor of Environmental Studies Nancy J Turner Pdf

The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, roots, and berries that were peripheral to a diet and culture focused on salmon. Colonizers who followed the explorers used these claims to justify the displacement of Native groups from their lands. Scholars now understand, however, that Northwest Coast peoples were actively cultivating plants well before their first contact with Europeans. This book is the first comprehensive overview of how Northwest Coast Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended. Bringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures, Keeping It Living tells the story of traditional plant cultivation practices found from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from ethnobotanists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, and Native American scholars and elders, Keeping It Living documents practices, many unknown to European peoples, that involve manipulating plants as well as their environments in ways that enhanced culturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes how indigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 different species of plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwater bogs.