Selin H. (ed.) Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures

Springer Science+Business Media, 2003. — xxiv, 482 p. — (Science across cultures, 4). — ISBN: 978-90-481-6271-0, 978-94-017-0149-5.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.Acknowledgements
About the AuthorsHelaine SelinEnvironmentalism and Images of the Other
Arne Kalland
The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Re-Thinking the Western / Non-Western Divide
Michael Dove, Marina T. Campos, Andrew Salvador Mathews, Laura J. Meitzner Yoder, Anne Rademacher, Suk Bae Rhee, and Daniel Somers Smith
Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures
Roy Ellen
Local Understandings of the Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge
Roy C. Dudgeon and Fikret Berkes
Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations
Richard Sto Ze, Rebecca Toupal, and Nieves Zedeño
Worldviews and Ecology
Mary Evelyn Tucker
The Spirit(s) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand
Susan M. Darlington
Indian Perspectives on Naturalism
D.P. Chattopadhyaya
Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment
John A. Tucker
Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place
Graham Parkes
The Perception of Nature and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa
John Kesby
Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land
J.L. Kohen
Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania
Edvard Hviding
Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia
William Balée
Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment
David L. Browman
‘‘Nature Doesn’t Come as Clean as We Can Think It’’: Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North
Ellen Bielawski
We Are the Land: Native American Views of Nature
Annie L. Booth
Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment
Leslie Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel
Confucian Views of Nature
John Berthrong
Daoism and Nature
James Miller
Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment
Harold Coward
Nature and Culture: An Islamic Perspective
S. Parvez Manzoor
Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices
Jeanne Kay GuelkeTrue PDF