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Redefining Nature - Ecology, Culture and Domestication (Paperback)
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Redefining Nature - Ecology, Culture and Domestication (Paperback)
Series: Explorations in Anthropology
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- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the
interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can
anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on
particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning
sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million
years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it
into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement
of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human
domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of
culture in confrontation with nature was being challenged by
science, philosophy and the environmental movement.Anthropology is
increasingly concerned with such issues as they become more urgent
for humankind as a whole. This important book reviews the current
state of the concepts of 'nature' we use, both as scientific
devices and ideological constructs, and is organised around three
themes: - nature as a cultural construction;- the cultural
management of the environment; and- relations between plants,
animals and humans.
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