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People and places of nature and culture /

Using Australian Aboriginal people's rich and vital understandings of country as a model, People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. While current thought includes the mistaken notion - perpetuated by natural history,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giblett, Rodney James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
Colección:Cultural studies of natures, landscapes and environments.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: From Sustainability to Symbiosis
  • PART I: Cultural Nature
  • Chapter 1: The Nature of Natures and the Cultures of Natures
  • Chapter 2: Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female)?
  • PART II: Landscape Aesthetics
  • Chapter 3: Nature's Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature
  • Chapter 4: Pleasing Prospects Revista'd: The Gentleman's Park Estate
  • PART III: Colonial Country
  • Chapter 5: Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category
  • Chapter 6: Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush
  • PART IV: National Parklands
  • Chapter 7: Nature Sanctuarized: 'Our' National Parks as Modern Cathedrals
  • Chapter 8: Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks
  • PART V: Industrial Land Use
  • Chapter 9: Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony
  • Chapter 10: Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastoralism
  • PART VI: Land Symbiotics
  • Chapter 11: 'We are the Land Ourselves': Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape
  • Chapter 12: Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis.