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Picturing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stepan, Nancy.
- Series:
- Picturing history.
- Picturing history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of nature.
- Human ecology--Philosophy.
- Human ecology.
- Tropical medicine.
- Tropics.
- Tropics--In art.
- Tropics--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent historic misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples.
- Contents:
- Picturing Tropical Nature Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Going to the Tropics; 2 An Evolutionist's Tropics; 3 Racial Degenerations; 4 Racial Transformations; 5 The New Tropical Pathology; 6 Appearances and Disappearances; 7 Tropical Modernism; Epilogue; References; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612265204
- 9781282265202
- 1282265202
- 9781861896254
- 1861896255
- OCLC:
- 437107857
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