Cultural Models Of Nature
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Author | : Giovanni Bennardo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351127888 |
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernatural). The adoption of a common methodology across the research projects allows the drawing of meaningful cross-cultural comparisons between these communities. The research will be of interest to scholars and policymakers actively involved in research and solution-providing in the climate change arena.
Author | : I. G. Simmons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134862229 |
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true? Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.
Author | : Douglas R. Weiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s—Lenin’s rule to the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study's impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first published.
Author | : Kay Milton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134821069 |
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary global arena. Taking an anthropological approach the book examines the relationship between human culture and human ecology, and considers how a cultural approach to the study of environmental issues differs from other established approaches in social science. This book adds significantly to our understanding of environmentalism as a contemporary phenomenon, by demonstrating the distinctive contribution of social and cultural anthropology to the environmental debate. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of social science and the environment.
Author | : A. Buttimer |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9401723923 |
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.
Author | : Daniel T. McCloskey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
In many cultural contexts, understandings of the domain of nature and the domain of society seem to be interrelated. This is to say that the underlying logics that are contained in culturally shared mental constructs, or cultural models, for these areas seem to inform one another. However, little recent scholarship addresses the dichotomy in the American context. By studying the cultural models for nature and society held by park workers at a state park in north central Idaho, I provide a case study that begins to remedy this oversight. Using both unstructured and semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation, I collected data at this park in the summer of 2022. With this data, I used cognitive anthropological analytical methods to deduce the models that these state park-working participants held. The central model that I deduced - nature-as-wilderness - is predicated on and perpetuates a strong nature-culture dichotomy and, thus, informs models of nature and society, not in parallel logics, but in their polarity, their presumed oppositeness. Although this type of nature-culture dichotomy is not new to Western thought, the models that I found reversed the classic valuation of culture over nature. I believe that this model of nature-as-wilderness provides an important glimpse into a foundational model in the American consciousness.
Author | : Craig Conley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : European Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415132169 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Douglas R. Weiner |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822972150 |
With a new afterword by the authorA study of the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement. Focusing on the period from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s (from Lenin's rule to the rise of Stalin), Douglas R. Weiner studies the divergence between the growing ecological movement in the country and the state's social and economic policies. The book offers a view of both sides of this dispute: scientific conservation movements on the one hand and an industrializing nation's attitude toward science, scientists, nature, and massive development on the other. Weiner explains the development of pioneering conservation institutions, state practices, and ecological theory in the Soviet Union during the 1920s , and why those developments were sidelined or quashed by Stalin. The book provides a telling example of the social construction of science, showing how the perceived political implications of rival ecological theories influenced Soviet scientists, and chronicles the nature protection movement's conflicts with both the vigilantes of the Cultural Revolution and Stalin's first Five-Year Plan, which blatantly ignored potential environmental consequences in its quest to industrialize on a large scale.The new afterword reflects upon the study's impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first published. Now in paperback, this classic text is well suited for course use in Russian history, environmental studies, and history of science.
Author | : Dorothy Holland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1987-01-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521311687 |
A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.