Screen LibraryRendering nature : animals, bodies, places, politics /
"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--...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Nature and culture in America
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"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 |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-379) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780812247251 : 0812247256 |
| Index Number: | GF75 |
| CLC: | Q988 |
| Call Number: | Q988/R397 |
| Contents: | 1. The nature-culture paradox / Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young -- Part I. Animals. 2. Beasts of the southern wild : slaveholders, slaves, and other animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States / Thomas G. Andrews ; 3. Stuffed : nature and science on display / John Herron ; 4. Digit's legacy : reconsidering the human-nature encounter in a global world / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- Part II. Bodies. 5. The Gulick family and the nature of adolescence / Susan A. Miller ; 6. Children of light : the nature and culture of suntanning / Catherine Cocks ; 7. Dr. Spock is worried : v |