Rendering Nature : : Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics /

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

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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 incre...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 54 illus.
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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

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