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1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnologists -- Greece -- History.
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Ethnologists. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Ethnology -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
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Ethnology. |
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Mediterranean Region. |
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Human ecology -- Mediterranean Region.
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Human ecology. |
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography.
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| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
| Subject |
Historiography. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version Bosak-Schroeder, Clara Other natures Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520343481 (DLC) 2019047682 (OCoLC)1119619258 |
| ISBN |
9780520974814 electronic book |
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0520974816 electronic book |
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9780520343481 hardcover |
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0520343484 hardcover |
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