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Forest family : Australian culture, art, and trees /

"Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ryan, John (John Charles) (Poet) (Editor ), Giblett, Rodney James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Colección:Critical plant studies ; 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Introducing Forest Family; Part 1 Old-Growth Nature and Culture; Chapter 2 From Understory to Overstory: Critical Studies of Old-Growth Trees and Forests; Chapter 3 Forest Giants: Locating Southwest Australian Old-Growth Country; Chapter 4 Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup Area; Chapter 5 Built in the Forest: A Hamlet History of Giblett Cultural Heritage; Photographic Essay: Let No Man Put Asunder; Part 2 Old-Growth Arts and Activism.
  • Chapter 6 From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and ForestsChapter 7 Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest through the Arts; Chapter 8 Old-Growth Activism: The Giblett Forest Rescue of 1994 and 1997; Index.