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Nature Across Cultures

Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Helaine Selin

    1. Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

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Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 4)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  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
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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.

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  • Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

    Helaine Selin

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