Rendering Nature : : Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics / / ed. by Phoebe S. K. Young, Marguerite S. Shaffer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Andrews, Thomas G.,; Chiang, Connie Y.,; Cocks, Catherine,; Coleman, Annie Gilbert,; Dunaway, Finis,; Herron, John,; Kirk, Andrew,; Knobloch, Frieda,; Miller, Susan A.,; Mizelle, Brett,; Shaffer, Marguerite S.,; Young, Phoebe S. K.,
• HerausgeberIn: Shaffer, Marguerite S.,; Young, Phoebe S. K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Nature and Culture in America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 54 illus.

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 increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever.Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes-animals, bodies, places, and politics-the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament.Contributors: Thomas G. Andrews, Connie Y. Chiang, Catherine Cocks, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Finis Dunaway, John Herron, Andrew Kirk, Frieda Knobloch, Susan A. Miller, Brett Mizelle, Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Nature- Culture Paradox -- PART I. ANIMALS -- Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States -- Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display -- Chapter 4. Digit's Legacy: Reconsidering the Human- Nature Encounter in a Global World -- PART II. BODIES -- Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence -- Chapter 6. Children of Light: Th e Nature and Culture of Suntanning -- Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism -- PART III. PLACES -- Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers -- Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: Th e Colorado River and the Nature of Texts -- Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time -- PART IV. POLITICS -- Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration -- Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat -- Chapter 13. "Bring Tent": The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments