Uncommon ground : rethinking the human place in nature / William Cronon, editor.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c1996Description: 561 p. : illISBN:- 0393315118
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-476)
Introduction: in search of nature / William Cronon -- The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- Constructing nature : the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Amazonia as Edenic narrative / Candace Slater -- Reinventing Eden: western culture as a recovery narrative / Carolyn Merchant -- "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?": work and nature / Richard White -- Looking for nature at the mall: a field guide to the Nature Company / Jennifer Price -- "Touch the magic" / Susan G. Davis -- Ecological fragmentation in the fifties / Michael G. Barbour -- On the search for a root cause: essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse / Jeffrey C. Ellis -- Whose nature? The contested moral terrain of ancient forests / James D. Proctor -- Nature as community: the convergence of environment and social justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Universal donors in a vampire culture: it's all in the family: biological kinship categories in the twentieth-century United States / Donna J. Haraway -- Reinventing common nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore--a meandering tale of a double nature / Kenneth R. Olwig -- Simulated nature and natural simulations: rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world / N. Katherine Hayles -- Toward a philosophy of nature / Robert P. Harrison.
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