Nature Across Cultures Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures

Name: Nature Across Cultures Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures
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ISBN: 9781402012358

ISBN-10: 1402012357

ISBN-13: 9781402012358

Edition: 2003

Authors: Helaine Selin

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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…

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List price: $329.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 9/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 482
Size: 8.27" wide x 11.69" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 4.290
Language: English



Acknowledgements


About the Authors


Introduction




Environmentalism and Images of the Other




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




Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures




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




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




Worldviews and Ecology




The Spirit(s) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand




Indian Perspectives on Naturalism




Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment




Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place




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




Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land




Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania




Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia




Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment




"Nature Doesn't Come as Clean as We Can Think It": Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North




We Are the Land: Native American Views of Nature




Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment




Confucian Views of Nature




Daoism and Nature




Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment




Nature and Culture: An Islamic Perspective




Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices



Index