Encounters with nature : essays

著者

• Shepard, Paul
• Shepard, Florence R.

書誌事項

Encounters with nature : essays

by Paul Shepard ; edited by Florence R. Shepard ; [introduction by David Petersen]

Island Press / Shearwater Books, c1999

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

"A Shearwater Book published by Island Press" --T.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Throughout his life, Paul Shepard drew on a range of disciplines, including biology, ecology, ethology and anthropology, to piece together a logical and meaningful shape to the natural world. These essays, selected by his wife, offer his legacy to students of the natural world.

目次

• The origin of metaphor - the animal connection
• animals and identity formation
• the animal - an idea waiting to be thought
• notes for a diatribe on masks
• the arboreal eye
• aggression and the hunt
• a theory of the value of hunting
• meditations on hunting
• the significance of bears
• digging for our roots
• the nature of tourism
• whatever happened to human ecology?
• the conflict of ideology and ecology
• sociobiology and value systems
• itinerant thoughts on place
• place and the child.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA49093021
• ISBN:
  • 1559635290
• LCCN: 99033862
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Washington, D.C.
• ページ数/冊数: xxix, 223 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QH81
  • DC21 : 508
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Nature