Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Anne Buttimer (Author), Luke Wallin (Editor)
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental change. Understanding across cultural lines has never been more important. This book shows how individual cultures see their own histories as offering protection for nature, while often viewing others as lacking such ethical restraints. Through such writing a discourse of understanding and common action becomes possible. The authors come from the places they discuss, and offer passionate as well as scholarly visions of nature within their cultural homes. Audience: This volume is of interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of cultural geography, environmental history, environmental studies, history of environmental ideas, environmental education, landscape and literature, nature and culture. It can be used for courses in the above-mentioned areas and seminars in comparative literature. It can also be used as a complimentary text to provide cultural context to literary readings, and for seminars on cultural aspects of the environment
eBook, English, 1999
Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Imprint : Springer, Dordrecht, Dordrecht, 1999
1 online resource (XVIII, 360 pages)
9789401723923, 9401723923
1058014720
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Reflections on the History of Western Attitudes to Nature
Ideas of Nature in East Asian Lands
Japan's Traditional View of Nature and Interpretation of Landscape
Indian Attitudes Toward Nature
Nature and Cosmic Integrity: A Search in Hindu Geographical Thought
World Views of Arab Geographers
Perspectives on the Contributions of Arabs and Muslims to Geography
Cosmos and Hearth in China
Interplay of State and Local Concern in the Management Of Natural Resources: Hydraulics and Forestry in Spain, 1855-1936
The Real Country and the Legal Country: Spanish Ideals and Mayan Realities in Colonial Guatemala
Popular and Official Appraisals of Natural Resources: Some Evidence from Australia
God, Thine Earth is Burning: Nature Attitudes and the Latvian Drive for Independence
Arctic Worlds and the Geography of Imagination
A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative
Invented Tradition and Academic Convention in Geographical Thought About New England
Writing "God's Fine Wilderness": John Muir in the Mountains of California
Contested Visions: Nature, Culture and the Morality of Landscape in the Scottish Highlands
The Narrative Creation of Place: Yeats and West-of-Ireland Landscapes
Farmers, Foresters, Gypsies, Guests: Narratives of Swedish Cultural Identity
Waking the Dead: Exploring Mexican and Arctic Spaces
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