Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural PerspectiveAnne Buttimer, L. Wallin 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. |
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Contents
Reflections on the History of Western Attitudes to Nature | 1 |
Ideas of Nature in East Asian Lands | 19 |
Japans Traditional View of Nature and Interpretation | 51 |
Indian Attitudes Toward Nature | 63 |
A Search in Hindu | 69 |
World Views of Arab Geographers | 87 |
Perspectives on the Contributions of Arabs and Muslims to Geography | 95 |
Cosmos and Hearth in China | 117 |
Spanish Ideals | 151 |
Nature Attitudes and the Latvian | 175 |
Arctic Worlds and the Geography of Imagination | 189 |
Invented Tradition and Academic Convention | 235 |
John Muir in the Mountains | 251 |
Nature Culture and the Morality of Landscape | 271 |
Yeats and WestofIreland | 287 |
Hydraulics and Forestry in Spain 18551936 | 137 |
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| Title | Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective Volume 48 of GeoJournal Library |
| Editors | Anne Buttimer, L. Wallin |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0792356519, 9780792356516 |
| Length | 360 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Nature / Natural Resources Philosophy / General Philosophy / Reference Science / Earth Sciences / Geography Social Science / Human Geography Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General |
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