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Rendering nature : animals, bodies, places, politics /

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival--health, sustenance, shelter--or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary inc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Young, Phoebe S. K. (Phoebe Schroeder Kropp), 1970- (Editor ), Shaffer, Marguerite S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Nature and culture in America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The nature-culture paradox / Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young
  • Animals
  • Beasts of the southern wild : slaveholders, slaves, and other animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States / Thomas G. Andrews
  • Stuffed : nature and science on display / John Herron
  • Digit's legacy : reconsidering the human- nature encounter in a global world / Marguerite S. Shaffer
  • Bodies
  • The Gulick family and the nature of adolescence / Susan A. Miller
  • Children of light : the nature and culture of suntanning / Catherine Cocks
  • Dr. Spock is worried : visual media and the emotional history of American environmentalism / Finis Dunaway
  • Places
  • Prototyping natures : technology, labor, and art on atomic frontiers / Andrew Kirk
  • River rats in the archive : the Colorado River and the nature of texts / Annie Gilbert Coleman
  • Rocks of ages : the decadent desert and sepulchral time / Frieda Knobloch
  • Politics
  • Winning the war at Manzanar : environmental patriotism and the Japanese American incarceration / Connie Y. Chiang
  • Unthinkable visibility : pigs, pork, and the spectacle of killing and meat / Brett Mizelle
  • "Bring tent" : the occupy movement and the politics of public nature / Phoebe S.K. Young.