Nature Across Cultures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Environmentalism and Images of the Other

   • Arne Kalland

   Pages 1-17

3. The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Re-Thinking the Western/Non-Western Divide

   • Michael R. Dove, Marina T. Campos, Andrew Salvador Mathews, Laura J. Meitzner Yoder, Anne Rademacher, Suk Bae Rhee et al.

   Pages 19-46

4. Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures

   • Roy Ellen

   Pages 47-74

5. Local Understandings of the Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge

   • Roy C. Dudgeon, Fikret Berkes

   Pages 75-96

6. Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations

   • Richard W. Stoffle, Rebecca Toupal, Nieves Zedeño

   Pages 97-114

7. Worldviews and Ecology: The Interaction of Cosmology and Cultivation

   • Mary Evelyn Tucker

   Pages 115-127

8. The Spirit(S) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand

   • Susan M. Darlington

   Pages 129-145

9. Indian Perspectives on Naturalism

   • D. P. Chattopadhyaya

   Pages 147-159

10. Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment

    • John A. Tucker

    Pages 161-183

11. Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Sense of Place

    • Graham Parkes

    Pages 185-209

12. The Perception of Nature and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • John D. Kesby

    Pages 211-228

13. Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land

    • J. L. Kohen

    Pages 229-243

14. Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania

    • Edvard Hviding

    Pages 245-275

15. Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia

    • William Balée

    Pages 277-288

16. Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment

    • David L. Browman

    Pages 289-310

17. Nature Doesn’t Come as Clean as We Can Think It”: Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North

    • Ellen Bielawski

    Pages 311-327

18. We are the Land: Native American Views of Nature

    • Annie L. Booth

    Pages 329-349

19. Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment

    • Leslie E. Sponsel, Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel

    Pages 351-371

20. Confucian Views of Nature

    • John Berthrong

    Pages 373-392

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.

• Cultural Studies
• Energie
• Europe
• ecology
• environment
• non-western cultures

• Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

  Helaine Selin

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