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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: GeoJournal Library, 48
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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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