Rendering nature : animals, bodies, places, politics / edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaffer, Marguerite S., editor.

Young, Phoebe S. K., editor.

Series:

Nature and culture in America.

Nature and Culture in America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--History.

Culture.

Culture--History--20th century.

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival—health, sustenance, shelter—or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes—animals, bodies, places, and politics—the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament. Contributors: Thomas G. Andrews, Connie Y. Chiang, Catherine Cocks, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Finis Dunaway, John Herron, Andrew Kirk, Frieda Knobloch, Susan A. Miller, Brett Mizelle, Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Chapter 1. The Nature- Culture Paradox

Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States

Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display

Chapter 4. Digit’s Legacy: Reconsidering the Human- Nature Encounter in a Global World

Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence

Chapter 6. Children of Light: The Nature and Culture of Suntanning

Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism

Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers

Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: The Colorado River and the Nature of Texts

Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time

Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration

Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat

Chapter 13. “Bring Tent”: The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 16, 2015).

ISBN:

9780812291452

OCLC:

918625446