Imagining Nature (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, 2004

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Paperback. Since the 1990s, many social scientists have sought to show that nature is not an eternal constant but an intrinsically unstable concept - a historical, cultural and social construct with powerful emotional, moral and political connotations. This volume sets out to explore some of the implications of and lacunae in this recent push to "denaturalise nature". But rather than asking "what is nature?", as many academic writers have been doing, the contributors here ask, "how is nature established as an entity?" and "through what processes and practices does nature achieve reality?" The editors provide a synthetic introduction to the dozen contributors which comprise the volume. Of particular interest is their account of how the dismantling of nature as an unquestioned given, echoes and was triggered by a similar dismantling of culture as an anthropological concept. The book's first half, "Cosmologies", focuses on the ways the practices of nature are embedded in overarching conceptual worldviews.Papers range from a sweeping critique of how neo-Darwinian biology, cognitive psychology and cultural theory have colluded to create the dominant narrative of human nature and culture that supports high diversity in both. Other ways to reconcile traditional and modern cosmologies emerge in comparative studies of economists and Algonquin hunter-gatherers, Danish biologists and Inuit fishermen. Chapters in the second half illustrate some of the means by which identity unfolds and becomes established in interacting with and imagining nature. The chapters examine nature and identity in the national mythologies of Scandinavia and Germany; two Fulani status groups in Burkina Faso; the confrontational Sami community of Manndalen, Norway; the spatial world of the Tsaalang nomads in Mongolia; and two neoclassic houses by Le Corbusier and Wright. During the last decade, many social scientists have sought to show that nature is not an eternal constant but an intrinsically unstable concept - a historical, cultural and social construct with powerful emotional, moral and political connotations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Imagining Nature (Paperback)
Autor
Kalevi Kull
Verlag
Aarhus University Press, Aarhus
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
8772889454
ISBN-13
9788772889450

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