Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science Book 4)

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups. Environmentalism and images of the other / Arne Kalland -- The global mobilization of environmental concepts: re-thinking the Western/Non-Western divide / Michael Dove [and others] -- Variation and uniformity in the construction of biological knowledge across cultures / Roy Ellen -- Local understandings of the land: traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous knowledge / Roy C. Dudgeon and Fikret Berkes -- Landscape, nature, and culture: a diachronic model of human-nature adaptations / Richard Stoffle, Rebecca Toupal, and Nieves Zedenõ -- Worldviews and ecology / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- The spirit(s) of conservation in Buddhist Thailand / Susan M. Darlington -- Indian perspectives on naturalism / D.P. Chattopadhyaya -- Japanese views of nature and the environment / John A. Tucker -- Winds, waters, and earth energies: fengshui and awareness of place / Graham Parkes -- The perception of nature and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Kesby -- Both sides of the beach: knowledges of nature in Oceania / Edvard Hviding -- Native views of the environment in Amazonia / William Baleé -- Central Andean views of nature and the environment / David L. Browman -- "Nature doesn't come as clean as we can think it": Dene, Inuit, scientists, nature and environment in the Canadian North / Ellen Bielawski -- We are the land: Native American views of nature / Annie L. Booth -- Buddhist views of nature and the environment / Leslie Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- Confucian views of nature / John Berthrong -- Daoism and nature / James Miller -- Hindu views of nature and the environment / Harold Coward -- Nature and culture: an Islamic perspective / S. Parvez Manzoor -- Judaism, Israel, and natural resources: models and practices / Jeanne Kay Guelke. "Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups."--Résumé de l'éditeur Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. [from publisher's advertisement]