Cultures of Habitat : on nature, culture, and story

Summary: A collection of twenty-four essays in which the author observes how natural diversity and cultural diversity support each other, and offers examples of how human communities have influenced nature.

Record details

ISBN: 1887178473
ISBN: 9781887178471
Physical Description: print
viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, �1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338).

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Cultures of Habitat -- Finding Ourselves in the Far Outside -- Pledging Allegiance to All Sorts of Diversity -- Missing the Boat: Why Cultural Diversity Didn't Make It onto the Ark -- Sierra Madre Upshot: Ecological and Agricultural Health -- Children in Touch, Creatures in Story -- Making Places Close to Home Where the Soul Can Fly -- Growing Up Othered: An Arab-American Childhood -- Behind the Zipper: Discovering the Diversity around Us -- Finding the Wild Thread: The Evolution of a Naturalist -- Hummingbirds and Human Aggression -- Searching for Lost Places -- Cultural Parallax: The Wilderness Concept in Crisis -- When the Spring of Animal Dreams Runs Dry -- Killer, Fire, and the Aboriginal Way -- Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions -- Let Us Now Praise Native Crops: An American Cornucopia -- Harvest Time: Agricultural Change on the Northern Plains -- Tequila Hangovers and the Mescal Monoculture Blues -- Hornworm's Home Ground: Conserving Interactions -- The Parable of the Poppy and the Bee -- The Pollinator and the Predator: Conservation That Zoos Can't Do -- Why Chiles Are Hot: Seed Dispersal and Plant Survival -- Where Creatures and Cultures Know No Boundaries -- Showdown in the Rain Forest -- Epilogue: Restorying the Sonorous Landscape.