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Nature and identity in cross-cultural perspective

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.
eBook, English, 1999
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1999
1 online resource.
9780792356516, 0792356519
1012457934
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.