Soil and Culture
SOIL -beneath our feet -food and fiber -ashes to ashes, dust to dust -dirt Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place-porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Soil and the Visual Arts
- The Representation of Soil in the Western Art: From Genesis to Pedogenesis
- Deforestation and Erosion Captured in Historical Art of the Pearl River Delta Region, China
- Transcendental Aspects of Soil in Contemporary Visual Arts
- Merging Horizons-Soil Science and Soil Art
- Soil Colors, Pigments and Clays in Paintings
- In a Supporting Role: Soil and the Cinema
- Under my feet-Soil presence and perspectives in the work of four contemporary visual artists
- Dig Deeper
- Creating Fiber Art with Soil and Rust
- Soil, Subsoil, Priming and Architectural Design
- Art by the Ground
- Soil and Soul: Literature and Philosophy
- To Join the Real and the Mental Place: The Written Earth
- "Pochveniks"-"The Poets of The Soil": The Geological School of 20th Century Poetry in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- The Soil Scientist's Hidden Beloved: Archetypal Images and Emotions in the Scientist's Relationship with Soil
- Comprehending Soil within the Context of the Land Community
- Core Samples of the Sublime-On the Aesthetics of Dirt
- Perspectives on Soil by Indigenous and Ancient Cultures
- European Religious Cultivation of the Soil
- "Rock - Stone" and "Soil - Earth": Indigenous Views of Soil Formation and Soil Fertility in the West Indies
- Mobilizing Farmers' Knowledge of the Soil
- Ancient Maya Perceptions of Soil, Land, and Earth
- The Soil Memory: Case Study of a Protohistoric Archaeological Site in Senegal
- Soil and Health
- Soils and Geomedicine: Trace Elements
- Do Pedo-Epidemiological Systems Exist?
- "Earth Eaters": Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Human Geophagy
- Soil - the dark side and the light side
- Soil and Warfare
- Yellow Sands and Penguins: The Soil of "The Great Escape"
- Soils and Soil Pioneers on Stamps
- Soil in Comic Strips and Cartoons
- Soils and Terroir Expression in Wines.