Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western CulturesHelaine Selin 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. |
Contents
Environmentalism and Images of the Other | 1 |
ReThinking | 19 |
Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological | 47 |
Traditional Ecological | 75 |
A Diachronic Model of Human | 97 |
Worldviews and Ecology | 115 |
The Spirits of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand | 129 |
Indian Perspectives on Naturalism | 147 |
Knowledges of Nature in Oceania | 245 |
Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia | 277 |
Native American Views of Nature | 329 |
Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment | 351 |
Confucian Views of Nature | 373 |
Daoism and Nature | 390 |
Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment | 411 |
Models and Practices | 433 |
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Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western ... Helaine Selin No preview available - 2014 |
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western ... Helaine Selin No preview available - 2010 |
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References to this book
Green Encounters: Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica Luis Antonio Vivanco No preview available - 2006 |