Encounters with nature : essays
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Encounters with nature : essays
Island Press / Shearwater Books, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"A Shearwater Book published by Island Press" --T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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