In the essay I argue that it is important not to separate the effects of nature and nurture, or biology and culture. I take my guidance here from Marx's insistence in his Manuscripts of 1844 that we are part of nature and social at the ...
Author: Nancy C.M. Hartsock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000301410
Category: Social Science
Page: 272
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In this book, Nancy C. M. Hartsock offers her current thinking about the development of feminist political economy, focusing on the relationships between feminist theory and activism, feminism and Marxism, and postmodernism and feminist politics.
Originally published (hardcover) in 1985 by Paragon House, this examination of the interconnectedness of nature and human endeavor showcases Turner's exploration of--and attempt to integrate--principles of literature, art, music, biology, ...
Author: Frederick Turner
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSC:32106007340935
Category: Literature and science
Page: 312
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Originally published (hardcover) in 1985 by Paragon House, this examination of the interconnectedness of nature and human endeavor showcases Turner's exploration of--and attempt to integrate--principles of literature, art, music, biology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and aesthetics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Following this essay's opening idealization of rural life as " essentially ennobling , elevating , civilizing ... laid out her argument for an elevated , even exalted , position for nature writing and nature writers in her culture .
Author: Susan Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820324221
Category: Nature
Page: 172
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Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), though often overshadowed by her celebrity father, James Fenimore Cooper, has recently become recognized as both a pioneer of American nature writing and an early advocate for ecological sustainability. Editors Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson have assembled here a collection of ten pieces by Cooper that represent her most accomplished nature writing and the fullest articulation of her environmental principles. With one exception, these essays have not been available in print since their original appearance in Cooper's lifetime. A portrait of her thoughts on nature and how we should live and think in relation to it, this collection both contextualizes Cooper's magnum opus, Rural Hours (1850), and demonstrates how she perceived her work as a nature writer. Frequently her essays are models of how to catch and keep the interest of a reader when writing about plants, animals, and our relationship to the physical environment. By lamenting the decline of bird populations, original forests, and overall biodiversity, she champions preservation and invokes a collective environmental conscience that would not begin to awaken until the end of her life and century. The selections include independent essays, miscellaneous introductions and prefaces, and the first three installments from Cooper's work of literary ornithology, "Otsego Leaves," arguably her most mature and fully realized contribution to American environmental writing. In addition to a foreword by John Elder, one of the nation's leading environmental educators, an introduction analyzes each essay in various cultural contexts. Brief but handy textual notes supplement the essays. Perfect for nature-writing aficionados, environmental historians, and environmental activists, this collection will radically expand Cooper's importance to the history of American environmental thought.
The Human destiny is no longer dependent on nature, man has built a cultural universe founded the expense of the "virtues" of nature. Man says Morin, is subject in a world of objects and thus "on-natural". Nature has always been a topic ...
Thus we need to see the Narmada ecological ethnicity as natureculture where the discourses of nature and culture do not introduce an artificial split between domesticated ' and ' wild ' . The humannon - human interactions produce a ...
Author: Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781785277870
Category: Art
Page: 190
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The collection of essays in the book moves from the largest domain of celebrity culture in India – Bollywood – through celebrity life writing and biopics and, finally, to the politics of and by celebrity culture. The book begins with an exploration of films made around celebrity victims to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Bollywood stars’ philanthropic and humanitarian work and, finally, to celebrity charisma and its role in the current era of ‘post-truth.’ Two studies of celebrity biopics and auto/biographies – from sports stars to Bollywood stars – and their disease memoirs are included. Finally, a section of essays are devoted to celebrity cultural politics, including Indian writing as a celebrity, the Narmada River as a celebrity, the desacralization of celebrity statues, Arundhati Roy’s celebrated and celebrity activism and the self-fashioning of Indian authors in the age of digital culture.
Even now, the blind context of nature, myth, perpetuates itself in culture, and this is precisely what the essay reflects on: the relationship of nature and culture is its true theme. Instead of “reducing” cultural phenomena, the essay ...
Author: Nora M. Alter
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231543996
Category: Performing Arts
Page:
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The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh. Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and fiction, the mixing of art- and documentary-film styles, the foregrounding of subjective points of view, a concentration on public life, a tension between acoustic and visual discourses, and a dialogic encounter with audiences. This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early critical articulations of the essay film as it evolved through the 1950s and 1960s, key contemporary scholarly essays, and a selection of writings by essay filmmakers. It features texts on the foundations of the essay film by writers such as Hans Richter and André Bazin; contemporary positions by, among others, Phillip Lopate and Michael Renov; and original essays by filmmakers themselves, including Laura Mulvey and Isaac Julien.
In the essay " On the Nature of Culture , " Simmel claims that we have an unreflective habit of ascribing cultural value to the worlds generated by the forms of art , morality , and science . Although they may , in fact , qualify as ...
Kluckhohn had cited her 1938 and 1940 articles (and none of Whorf's) in an essay on the nature of culture in a prominent postwar anthropological collection, quoting: "Grammar contains in crystallized form the accumulated and ...
Author: Dell H. Hymes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027245076
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 436
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Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of their dominant figures, their relations with other disciplines and intellectual current. The two disciplines have also varied in their interrelation with each other and the society about them. Institutional arrangements have reflected the varying degrees of kinship, kithship, and separation. Such relationships themselves form a topic that is central to a history of linguistic anthropology yet marginal to a self-contained history of linguistics or anthropology as either would be conceived by most authors. There exists not only a subject matter for a history of linguistic anthropology, but also a definite need.
... knits up the various threads of his essay and finds the unity of Italian culture in these powers of observation . ... These powers of observation were also connected to the appreciation of nature and of natural surroundings .
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789401200424
Category: Art
Page: 330
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This collection opens with an inquiry into the assumptions and methods of the historical study of culture, comparing the new cultural history with the old. Thirteen essays follow, each defining a problem within a particular culture. In the first section, Biography and Autobiography, three scholars explore historically changing types of self-conception, each reflecting larger cultural meanings; essays included examine Italian Renaissance biographers and the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Mohandas Gandhi. A second group of contributors explore problems raised by the writing of history itself, especially as it relates to a notion of culture. Here examples are drawn from the writings of Thucydides, Jacob Burckhardt, and the art historians Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski. In the third section, Politics, Nationalism, and Culture, the essays explore relationships between cultural creativity and national identity, with case studies focusing on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, the place of Castile within the national history of Spain, and the impact of World War I on work of Thomas Mann. The final section, Cultural Translation, raises the complex questions of cultural influence and the transmission of traditions over time through studies of Philo of Alexandria's interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, Erasmus' use of Socrates, Jean Bodin's conception of Roman law, and adaptations of the Hebrew Bible for American children.
The beginning of Cultural Studies feels to us like the New Left politics in another place. ... but exactly the kinds of questions—is the culture changing, what is happening to workingclass culture, what is the nature of affluent ...
Author: Stuart Hall
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9781478002710
Category: Social Science
Page: 352
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From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance. Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject.