The Nature Of Cultures
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The Nature Of Culture
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Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
The Nature Of Culture written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Anthropology categories.
The Nature Of Culture
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Author : A. L. Kroeber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01
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Nature And Culture
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Author : Sarah Pilgrim
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 2010
Nature And Culture written by Sarah Pilgrim and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Nature categories.
There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control nature. This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The international team of authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice. While conserving nature alongside human cultures presents unique challenges, this book forcefully shows that any hope for saving biological diversity is predicated on a concomitant effort to appreciate and protect cultural diversity.
Nature Across Cultures
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Author : Helaine Selin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Nature Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Science categories.
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.
The Nature Of Culture
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Author : Walter A. Koch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Nature Of Culture written by Walter A. Koch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Anthropological linguistics categories.
Gold
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Author : Rebecca Zorach
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Gold written by Rebecca Zorach and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Nature categories.
Gleaming and perfect, gold has beguiled humankind for many millennia, attracting treasure hunters, adorning the living and the dead, and symbolizing wealth, power, divinity, and eternity. This book offers a lively, critical look at the cultural history of this most regal metal, examining its importance across many cultures and time periods and the many places where it has been central, from religious ceremonies to colonial expeditions to modern science. Rebecca Zorach and Michael W. Phillips Jr. cast gold as a substance of paradoxes. Its softness at once makes it useless for most building projects yet highly suited for the exploration of form and the transmission—importantly—of images, such as the faces of rulers on currency. It has been the icon of value—the surest bet in times of uncertain markets—yet also of valuelessness, something King Midas learned the hard way. And, as Zorach and Phillips detail, it has been at the center of many clashes between cultures all throughout history, the unfortunate catalyst of countless blood lusts. Ultimately, they show that the questions posed by our relentless desire for gold are really questions about value itself. Lavishly illustrated, this book offers a shimmering exploration of the mythology, economy, aesthetics, and perils at the center of this simple—yet irresistible—substance.
Concepts Of Nature
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Author : Hans Ulrich Vogel
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-08-13
Concepts Of Nature written by Hans Ulrich Vogel and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-13 with History categories.
A collective masterpiece that illuminates premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with Europe’s, thus also reshaping our understanding of the corresponding Western concepts, and using the frequent partial similarities in the context of overall contrasts to define the differences that have been historically critical.
Nature Culture And Gender
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Author : Carol MacCormack
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1980-12-31
Nature Culture And Gender written by Carol MacCormack and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12-31 with Social Science categories.
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The Nature Of Culture
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Author : Miriam N. Haidle
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-29
The Nature Of Culture written by Miriam N. Haidle and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-29 with Science categories.
This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography are discussed; and the different stages of the development of cultural capacity in human evolution are traced in the archaeological record. The volume provides a synthetic view on a) the different factors and mechanisms of cultural development, and b) expansions of cultural capacities in human evolution beyond the capacities observed in animal culture so far. It is an important topic because only a volume of contributions from different disciplines can yield the necessary breadth to discuss the complex subject. The model introduced and discussed originates in the naturalist context and tries to open the discussion to some culturalist aspects, thus the publication in a series with archaeological and biological emphasis is apt. As a new development the synthetic model of expansion of cultural capacity is introduced and discussed in a broad perspective.
Nature Culture And Human History
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Author : Davydd J. Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1977
Nature Culture And Human History written by Davydd J. Greenwood and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Social Science categories.