Nature across cultures : views of nature and the environment in non-western cultures /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 481 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science across cultures ; v. 4 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5038014 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- 1.. Environmentalism and Images of the Other
- 2.. The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Re-Thinking the Western/Non-Western Divide
- 3.. Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures
- 4.. Local Understandings of the Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge
- 5.. Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations
- 6.. Worldviews and Ecology
- 7.. The Spirit(s) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand
- 8.. Indian Perspectives on Naturalism
- 9.. Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment
- 10.. Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place
- 11.. The Perception of Nature and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 12.. Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land
- 13.. Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania
- 14.. Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia
- 15.. Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment
- 16.. "Nature Doesn't Come as Clean as We Can Think It": Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North
- 17.. We Are the Land: Native American Views of Nature
- 18.. Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment
- 19.. Confucian Views of Nature
- 20.. Daoism and Nature
- 21.. Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment
- 22.. Nature and Culture: An Islamic Perspective
- 23.. Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices
- Index
