ISBN:
0520974816
,
9780520974814
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bosak-Schroeder, Clara Other natures
DDC:
305.80092
Keywords:
Ethnology History
;
Human ecology
;
Ethnologists History
;
Ethnologists
;
Ethnology
;
Historiography
;
Human ecology
;
HISTORY ; Ancient ; Greece
;
History
;
Greece History To 146 B.C
;
Historiography
;
Greece
;
Mediterranean Region
Abstract:
"Ancient Greek ethnographies-Greek descriptions of other peoples-provide unique resources for understanding ancient Greek environmental thought and assumptions and anxieties about how humans relate to the rest of nature. In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder persuasively demonstrates how non-Greek communities affect and are in turn deeply affected by their local animals, plants, climate, and landscape. By exploring the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, she shows how they used ethnography to explore, question, and challenge how Greeks themselves ate, procreated, nurtured, collaborated, accumulated, and consumed. In so doing, she recuperates an important strain of ancient thought that is directly relevant to vital questions and ideas being posed today by the environmental humanities-that human life and well-being are inextricable from the life and well-being of the nonhuman world. By turning to ancient ethnographies, we can uncover important models for confronting environmental crisis"--
Abstract:
Cover -- Other Natures -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Greek -- Introduction -- PART I. ANCIENT PERSPECTIVES -- 1. Sources and Methods -- 2. Rulers and Rivers -- 3. Female Feck -- 4. Dietary Entanglements -- 5. Resisting Luxury -- PART II. PRESENT CONCERNS -- 6. After the Encounter -- 7. Transformation in the Natural History Museum -- Notes -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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