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Journal articles on the topic "Nature-Culture Dichotomy"
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Kitayama, Shinobu, and Cristina E. Salvador. "Culture Embrained: Going Beyond the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy." Perspectives on Psychological Science 12, no. 5 (2017): 841–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691617707317.
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Lorenc, Iwona. "The landscape—beyond the dichotomy of nature and culture." Polish Journal of Landscape Studies 1, no. 1 (2019): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pls.2018.1.6.
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Ruggieri, Ruggero Andrisano. "Theory of Mind: Overcoming the Dichotomy Between Culture and Nature." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 11, no. 4 (2015): 742–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i4.1054.
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Richerson, Peter J., and Robert Boyd. "Darwinian models of culture: Toward replacing the nature/nurture dichotomy." World Futures 34, no. 1-2 (1992): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02604027.1992.9972293.
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Jewdokimow, Marcin, and Barbara Markowska. "„Rozstępy” przyszłości: o trudnych powiązaniach technologii, kultury i natury." Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae 12, no. 1 (2014): 133–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/seb.2014.12.1.08.
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Based on an interpretation of selected texts concerning ambient technology (AmI) the article critically discusses the relationship between technology, culture, and nature. A posthumanist approach to the analysis is adopted, allowing for the unveiling of the ruptures and splits related to such issues as subjectivity, culture-nature dichotomy, and technological development.
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Olmos, Lioba Rossbach de. "Manejando incompatibilidades." Anthropos 114, no. 1 (2019): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2019-1-33.
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The ocha and ifá tradition (traditionally known as “santería”) are said to maintain a close relationship with nature. However, both traditions are characterized by a worldview that does not separate nature from non-nature (culture). Starting from the “letter of the year” of ifá and the psychology of the “children of the Oricha” (omo oricha) this paper illustrates the ocha-ifá worldview, which differs from the nature-culture dichotomy prevalent in the dominant thinking of the environment. The article seeks to understand how climate change - a very expression of the nature and culture distinction - was incorporated into ifá and its annual prophecies.
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Wall-Reinius, Sandra, Solène Prince, and Annika Dahlberg. "Everyday life in a magnificent landscape: Making sense of the nature/culture dichotomy in the mountains of Jämtland, Sweden." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2, no. 1 (2019): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848619825988.
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Although the nature/culture dichotomy has been extensively criticized by scholars, it remains pervasive to our conception of the world. Discourses of nature as a pristine milieu and of culture as a realm of human dominance not only impact cognition, but also the local practices of those involved daily in such contested areas. In this study of the mountainous area of the Jämtland County, Sweden, we report on the ways local stakeholders make sense of their surrounding landscape in the wake of its magnificent character as they go about their daily lives as residents, entrepreneurs and recreationists. We turn to the notion of dwelling to frame these narratives. This ultimately becomes an exploration of the contradictions and confusions within and between the discourses of conservation, management, recreation, authenticity and tourism development that affect how local stakeholders consciously and subconsciously cope with the tensions brought about by the nature/culture dichotomy. The findings are used to propose a critical, as well as constructive, notion of dwelling that stresses the importance of opening up to new possibilities and responsibilities during negotiations over protected areas.
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Tomic, Zorica. "The concept of masculinity in Freud's theory of culture." Theoria, Beograd 52, no. 1 (2009): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo0901077t.
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This paper stresses out the concept of 'masculinity', as the functional for Freud's theory of culture. The traditional dichotomy between the nature and the culture, which is based upon the difference between femininity and masculinity, is used in Freud's work as the fact that confirms the 'origin of culture' as the masculine enterprise. Focused on Freud's theory of instincts this paper shows off that this theory interprets man as the only possible subject of culture.
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Salwa, Mateusz. "Pomnik przyrody i przekraczanie antropocentryzmu." Przegląd Humanistyczny 62, no. 1 (460) (2018): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.1842.
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The aim of the article is to analyze the concept of a natural monument as a category that may be useful in non-anthropocentric humanities. A theory of nature conservation based on this concept is discussed as an approach that undermines the culture – nature dichotomy by claiming that a “culture of nature” should be developed. The idea of a natural monument makes it also possible to offer an interpretation of the natural environment that may withstand standard views of nature as an economic resource, tourist attraction or a sphere which humans should not interfere with. The ideas of certain Polish pioneers of ecology are also shortly discussed.
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Verpoorte, Alexander. "Grateful prey and animal sign." Archaeological Dialogues 7, no. 2 (2000): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203800001732.
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AbstractThis paper reflects on the recent flourishing of the interdisciplinary study of food. Central is the notion that food forms a meeting-place for nature and culture, thereby overcoming this cartesian dichotomy. The paper starts from a discussion of the work of the French anthropologist P. Descola.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nature-Culture Dichotomy"
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Shokouhi, Marjan. "The play of the nature/culture dichotomy in an ecocritical study of W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Louis MacNeice." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654718.
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This dissertation aims at contributing to the emerging ecocritical scholarship in the field of Irish studies by undertaking an environmental study of the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Louis MacNeice. Ecocriticism, the study of literary texts in relation to their interconnectedness with the environment, has often been limited to the analysis of more 'natural' landscapes and the genre of nature writing. This thesis, however, problematises the common association of the term 'environment' as 'nature' and includes a study of wild, semi-urban, and urban landscapes in order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of environment and environmental awareness. The study of the nature-culture interactions in Irish literature offers a renegotiation of the complex and intricate relationship between place and identity as well as allowing for a consideration of the current state of ecological crisis in Ireland from a cultural perspective. The first chapter starts with the history of deforestation in Ireland from an ecophilosophical perspective and continues with an analysis of W. B. Yeats's sense of place in relation to natural/supernatural landscapes. The second chapter moves from wilderness to the country, where a romanticised idea of a primeval Irish culture was believed to be existent among the insular communities of rural West. This chapter entails a close reading of Patrick Kavanagh's rural aesthetics in comparison with W. B. Yeats's image of Ireland as a 'countrified' landscape of myth and heroism. The third chapter moves to the city as the less 'natural' but more frequently experienced form of environment. The relative peripheralisation of cities in narratives of Irish identity during the Irish Literary Revival corresponds to the overly 'pastoralised' domain of ecocriticism. I will consider Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice's urban poetics in relation to the modern Irish land/cityscape and the formation of new identity patterns. The philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Tim Ingold on environment and dwelling as well as Waiter Benjamin's work on modernity, flanerie, and metropolis provide the theoretical framework for this study.
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Hjulman, Tore Andersson. "Ett med naturen : En studie av hur naturen omförhandlades i mellankrigstidens konflikter mellan naturskydd och samiska rättigheter." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-61097.
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Tore Andersson Hjulman: One with Nature: An Inquiry into the Renegotiation of Nature in the Conflicts between Nature Preservation and Sámi Rights during the Interwar Period.[Ett med naturen: En studie av hur naturen omförhandlades i mellankrigstidens konflikter mellan naturskydd och samiska rättigheter.] PhD dissertation in Swedish, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden 2017. In 1909 the Swedish national parks law was adopted with the assumption that theSámi people living in the areas to be preserved were, in principle, one with nature. Therefore the perception of their land as pristine was consolidated and they could be excepted from park regulations. About thirty years later the national park administration stated that the aim to keep the national park nature untouched would fail without a restriction of Sámi rights within the parks. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the distinction of nature from culture was renegotiated during the conflicts that preceded and followed this new stance. Tracing the impulses that fostered the reactions of the state administration back to their original contexts, complex interactions of differing interests are revealed. These contexts are examined in three case studies. The first case centers on nomad school superintendent Erik Bergström and his warning of the effects on the national parks from reindeer herders activities. The intersection of nature preservation and Sámi politics sheds light on their common outset in the use of the nature-culture dichotomy in approaching the Sámi. This contributes to explain the resistance by which the interest of change was met by those invested in the prevailing state policy towards the Sámi.The second case concerns a conflict of Sámi land use in the Abisko national park by the early 1930s. Several factors that possibly induced state officials to react on Sámi fishing and hunting in the national park are illuminated. These include different understanding of nature preservation, the moral ecology among the Sámi and antagonism between Sámi reindeer herders and inhabitants in the railway towns.The third case involves concerns raised in the process of establishing a new national park in the Muttos/Muddus area. A shift in focus from mountainous to forest landscapes among nature preservationists resulted in the inclusion of new stakeholders and fields of knowledge about land use and its effects. This seems to have spurred problematizing of both the ideal of pristine nature and of Sámi land use. A conflict was triggered by the in-migration of two reindeer herding families.In conclusion, it will be argued that it was a series of quite contextually different conflicts that interacted to undermine the institutionalized demarcation of nature. This simultaneously challenged Sámi rights in the national parks and took place in ideological opposition to the foundation of segregationist Sámi policy.<br>Nature Preservation and Indigenous Rights
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Stith, Mary Mildred Boutin. "With and without them: thinking through binaries in Serengeti conservation science." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/41796.
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This dissertation critiques the nature-culture divide by examining the relationships between binaries in postcolonial wildlife research in Tanzania. I focus on the work of wildlife scientists, particularly scientists from Tanzania, who work in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park (SNP). Tanzanian scientists and their foreign counterparts are addressing the theoretical challenges of incorporating park neighbors into ecosystems shaped by the colonial inheritance of national parks as non-human places. I make three broad analytical moves in this endeavor. First, I develop a multi-dimensional method to compare the development of a people-park binary in the Serengeti context by analyzing ethnography, conservation science, and recent scientific debate on a proposed road through the northern part of SNP. Second, I explore connections between the people-park binary and other binaries in the broader Serengeti context using text analysis and ethnographic methods based on eighteen months of fieldwork. Last, I develop a future plan for theoretical and applied research that explores how and why binaries may or may not change concurrently. I conclude that the people-park binary is weakening through the process of “dilation:” a multi-dimensional and reversible process of change during which the borders, substance, and connectivity of dichotomized categories become less rigid. In the broader effort to understand how the people-park binary is dilating, I explore the preliminary conclusion that other binaries (visual-verbal, Tanzanian-foreign, women-men, Kiswahili-English, insect-charismatic wildlife) are also shifting as conservation science becomes more diverse. I propose future research to investigate inter-binary relationships as linked through thematic meaning, conceptual processes, and structural context. This research demonstrates that scientists are using multiple binaries and contexts to conceptually reimagine the colonial legacy of conservation. In essence, their work asks: can the park boundary be maintained as the detrimental social boundaries (national, gender, language, and, perhaps, discipline) that have been historically embedded in the park boundary are transformed? Through intellectual confrontations with dichotomies, knowledge production and reality-making in Africa can be understood as both universally and locally applicable.
Books on the topic "Nature-Culture Dichotomy"
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Head, Lesley. Cultural Landscapes. Edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0018.
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This article explores the idea of cultural landscapes. The term ‘cultural landscape’ is widely recognized as a description of a region of the earth that has been transformed by human action. This article explores the history of the idea of cultural landscapes, focusing on two dichotomies. The first is the dichotomy between materiality and symbolism; from highly material beginnings in the early twentieth century, the second is the dichotomy between nature and culture, concepts treated as oppositional for much of this history. It then examines some of the geographic differences, with particular attention to Australian and Scandinavian examples. The next section explores what happens when the cultural landscape idea itself becomes materialized, in the form of land and heritage management frameworks. The final section presents a recent critique of the cultural landscape concept and asks whether it is possible to go beyond the dichotomies, and whether the concept retains any usefulness.
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Lyons, Nathan. Signs in the Dust. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190941260.001.0001.
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Modern thought is characterised, according to Bruno Latour, by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, and John Poinsot (John of St Thomas), it offers a semiotic analysis of human culture in both its anthropological breadth as an enterprise of creaturely sign-making and its theological height as a finite participation in the Trinity, which can be understood as an absolute ‘cultural nature’. Signs then extends this account of human culture backwards into the natural depth of biological and physical nature. It puts the biosemiotics of its medieval sources, along with Félix Ravaisson’s philosophy of habit, into dialogue with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis in contemporary biology, to show that a cultural dimension is present through the whole order of nature and the whole of natural history. It also retrieves Aquinas’ doctrine of intentions in the medium to show how signification can be attributed in a diminished way to even inanimate nature. The phenomena of human culture are reconceived then not as breaks with a meaningless nature but instead as heightenings and deepenings of natural movements of meaning that long precede and far exceed us. Against the modern divorce of nature and culture, then, the argument of Signs in the Dust is that culture is natural and nature is cultural, through and through.
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Strecker, Amy. Landscape in Human Rights Case Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826248.003.0009.
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Chapter 9 analyses the case law of two international human rights courts—the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights—dealing with landscape issues. It compares the approach of the two regional courts and highlights the synergies and antagonisms involved in landscape cases. These include the false dichotomies of ‘Indigenous’ versus ‘Western’ notions of landscape, the culture/nature dichotomy and the private right to property versus the public interest in the landscape (non-proprietary interests), as exemplified in a number of cases before the European Court of Human Rights. A typology of landscape cases is presented and the problems of articulating a right to landscape within the current human rights framework are explored. The chapter concludes by offering some thoughts on collective rights and public spaces.
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James, Elaine T. Landscapes of the Song of Songs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190619015.001.0001.
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Landscapes of the Song of Songs is a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs. It develops a theoretical concept of landscape to explore the Song’s intrinsic interest in the natural world, engaging with work from the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature. It emphasizes the made quality of both landscapes and poetry, which are art forms defined by human intervention and vision. In this way it critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy in the Song between “nature” and “culture.” Each chapter explores a different imaginational landscape of the Song, using insights from landscape theory to inform close readings of the Song’s poems. The landscape concept emphasizes the material landscape, which is the primary focus of the study of agriculture in the Song. The landscape concept also maintains an insistence on human intervention, which informs the studies of both the garden and the city. Finally, a landscape concept implies an awareness of the viewer, which helps to re-appreciate the descriptive poems as a process of perceiving the lover and the land. With a twofold emphasis on landscape and lyric, this book shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, enfolded in complex relationships of fragility and care. In addition, Landscapes offers new, close readings of selected poems of the Song.
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Gjesdal, Kristin. Human Nature and Human Science. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779650.003.0010.
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It is difficult to accept that Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), an influential philosopher of history, language, and culture, was a prolific preacher and clergyman. His apparent Spinoza connection, his agreement with the pre-critical Kant, and his alleged naturalism seem to contradict his unquestioning acceptance of God. But when the human being is considered as the middle point a reconstruction of Herder devoid of this dichotomy is possible. Herder’s religious anthropology understands human beings both as historical and religious beings, which gives rise to his rejection of Christianity in its actuality as the sole future religion. The church raised itself above the individual and destroyed religions, cultures, and languages, whereas Herder’s notion of human religion—for him a universal concept—allows individual nations, cultures, languages, and religions to remain particular. Central for the argument are Herder’s Christliche Schriften (1793–8), the Ideen (1801–4), and the Adrastea (1801–4).
Book chapters on the topic "Nature-Culture Dichotomy"
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Hobohm, Carsten. "Nature-Culture Dichotomy and Environmental Consciousness: Do We Fear the Right Things?" In Environmental Challenges and Solutions. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57710-0_2.
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Clark, Nigel, Rupert Stasch, and Jon Bialecki. "‘Can We Have Our Nature/Culture Dichotomy Back, Please?’." In An Anthropology of the Enlightenment. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003084501-7.
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Clark, Nigel, Rupert Stasch, and Jon Bialecki. "‘Can We Have Our Nature/Culture Dichotomy Back, Please?’." In An Anthropology of the Enlightenment. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350086630.ch-007.
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Lyons, Nathan. "Introduction." In Signs in the Dust. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190941260.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter sets up the core question of Signs in the Dust: how is cultural meaning related to natural materiality? How is culture related to nature? A brief orientation is given to the contemporary nature-culture discussion that is proceeding across the humanities and sciences. Special attention is given to Bruno Latour’s claim that modern thought is characterised by a nature/culture dichotomy—this view of Latour’s Moderns is the foil against which the theory of ‘natural culture and cultural nature’ is cast. The chapter also forecasts the argument that is made across the book and clarifies the scope of that argument.
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Siqueira de Freitas, Alexandre. "A Study on the Interface Between Arts and Sciences." In Applications of Neuroscience. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5478-3.ch003.
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This chapter discusses issues related to two fields of knowledge: neuroesthetics and cognitive neuroscience of art. These two fields represent areas that link historically dichotomic instances: nature and culture. In the first section, the author introduces a brief discussion on this dichotomy, reified here as science and art/aesthetics. Based on a preliminary analysis of these fields, as well as potential interfaces and articulations, the author then situates neuroesthetics and cognitive science of art. In both cases, the main definitions, usual criticisms, and comments on potential expectations regarding the future of these two areas will be presented.
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Siqueira de Freitas, Alexandre. "A Study on the Interface between Arts and Sciences." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0510-5.ch005.
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This chapter discusses issues related to two fields of knowledge: neuroesthetics and cognitive neuroscience of art. These two fields represent areas that link historically dichotomic instances: nature and culture. In the first section, the author introduces a brief discussion on this dichotomy, reified here as science and art/aesthetics. Based on a preliminary analysis of these fields, as well as potential interfaces and articulations, the author then situates neuroesthetics and cognitive science of art. In both cases, the main definitions, usual criticisms, and comments on potential expectations regarding the future of these two areas will be presented.
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Shavit, Yaacov. "Introduction." In Athens in Jerusalem, translated by Chaya Naor and Niki Werner. Liverpool University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774259.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter briefly deals with the question of a dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem. More specifically, it aims to approach the issue by considering how Athens, with its associations of classical antiquity and Hellenism, might have any impact on modern Jewish culture. Both sides of this dichotomy, as this chapter shows, are quite different and distinct from one another. Indeed, they represent seemingly contradictory worlds. For the Jews, Athens represented Western culture as a whole. It was ‘modern’ and ‘secular’. A cultural value or trait was identified as ‘Greek’ in order to approve of it or, conversely, to attach a stigma to it. Some Jewish writers have also argued that ‘Athens’ and ‘Jerusalem’ signify the two forces of a primal duality (Urzwet) that have been contending with each other in Judaism since its inception, creating within it a tension, as well as a dynamic and enriching multiplicity. However, as this chapter shows, duality also creates a disintegrating tension, or one which in the final analysis causes the totality and the unity to alter their nature.
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Dove, Michael R. "Historic Parting of the Wild from the Civilized in Pakistan." In Bitter Shade. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300251746.003.0007.
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This chapter explores a dualistic system of environmental relations, one so ancient that it has evolved over time. The modern Hindi and Urdu term jangal means “dense forest,” but the ancient Sanskrit term from which it derives, jangala, referred to the arid, open savanna landscape of western India, which was culturally differentiated from the anupa wet forests of eastern India. There are other differences beyond the vegetative: whereas the jangala encompassed both wild and domestic space, the jangal is strictly the home of the wild; whereas the ancient jangala encompassed all that was civilized, the modern jangal excludes all that is civilized. The jangala encompassed both nature and culture, but the modern jangal is strictly the abode of nature. The encompassing of both wild and domestic within the ancient jangala supports the work of scholars like William Cronon, who see the Western dichotomy between society and wilderness as a product of modernity. Our concepts of nature are neither fixed nor independent of nature: nature and concepts of nature co-evolve — which speaks to Gregory Bateson's views of the inescapable relationship between nature and culture.
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Rich, Sara A. "Vibrant Corpses." In Shipwreck Hauntography. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463727709_ch04.
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To break away from the paradigm of corrupting seas, this chapter approaches shipwrecks ecologically and alchemically. The tragic wrecking of the late eighteenth-century frigate, Santa María Magdalena, off the coast of Viveiro, Spain, exemplifies that wrecks are not ‘dead ships’ but are carrying on in many of the same ways that they did at the surface. An artificial reef teeming with life after death, it embodies the alchemical maxim of putrefaction before purification. A comparison with more recent maritime tragedies, whose pollutants render them dangerously ‘undead’, calls for an urgent revision of how we conceptualize and evaluate ruins underwater, evaluations of which are currently limited by the false nature/culture dichotomy.
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Toft, Peter Andreas. "Modeling Complex Cultural Encounters in Contact and Colonial Greenland, 1690–1900." In Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056883.003.0004.
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In the wake of European whaling and the presence of Danish colonists and missionaries, the Greenlandic Inuit were facing not only foreign people but also a new material culture in the form of European commodities between 1690 and 1900. Trade was the main motivation for these cultural encounters, but the nature and duration of local encounters affected Inuit use and reception of foreign things. This cultural exchange cannot be reduced to the simple dichotomy of Inuit and Europeans. Many groups were involved on both sides, and foreign commodities were accompanied by Europeans in some areas, whereas Inuit groups acted as middlemen in others. This chapter discusses the applicability of the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model to complex Contact and Colonial encounters based on the cultural biographies of glass beads, barrel hoops, and iron objects transformed into ulos (women’s knives) in the Historic Thule Culture.