Nature Across Cultures : Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science)

nature across cultures : views of nature and the environment in non-western cultures (science across cultures: the history of non-western science)

Nature Across Cultures : Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science)

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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.

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science),H. Selin,Springer,1402012357,Cross-cultural studies,Environmental Science,Human Geography,Human ecology,Indigenous peoples,Nature,Philosophy of nature,Science,Science/Mathematics,Sociology,Applied ecology,History of science,NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS,Science / Environmental Science

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