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IMAGINING NATURE
PRACTICES OF COSMOLOGY AND IDENTITY |
| By: |
Andreas Roepstorff (Editor), Kalevi Kull, Nils Bubandt (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£26.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
8772889454 |
| ISBN 13: |
9788772889450 |
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| Publisher: |
AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2003 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Many social scientists have sought to show that nature is not an eternal constant but an intrinsically unstable concept - a historical, cultural and social construct with powerful emotional, moral and political connotations. This book sets out to explore some of the implications of and lacunae in this push to 'denaturalise nature'. |
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During the last decade, many social scientists have sought to show that nature is not an eternal constant but an intrinsically unstable concept - a historical, cultural and social construct with powerful emotional, moral and political connotations. Imagining Nature sets out to explore some of the implications of and lacunae in this recent push to "denaturalise nature". But rather than asking, What is nature? as many academic writers have been doing, the contributors here ask, How is nature established as an entity? Through what processes and practices does nature achieve reality? The first section of the book, "Cosmologies", focuses on ways the practices of nature are embedded in overarching conceptual worldviews. Chapters in the second section illustrate some of the means by which identity unfolds and becomes established in interacting with and imagining nature. The chapters examine nature and identity in the national mythologies of Scandinavia and Germany; two Fulani status groups in Burkina Faso; the confrontational Sami community of Manndalen, Norway; the spatial world of the Tsaatang nomads in Mongolia; and two neoclassic houses by Le Corbusier and Wright.While the individual contributions here will certainly interest specialists in the particular fields they represent, Imagining Nature is broadly interdisciplinary in appeal, and it is especially recommended to anyone intrigued by recent constructivist debate and the multiplying conceptions of nature in the social sciences. |
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illustrations |
| Publication: |
Denmark |
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Aarhus University Press |
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