Nature Across Cultures Views of Nature and the Environment in No
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Isl
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SCIENCE ACROSS CULTURES: THE HISTORY OF NON-WESTERN SCIENCE VOLUME 4 NATURE ACROSS CULTURES
Editor: HELAINE SELIN, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts USA
A list of titles in this series may be found at the end of this volume
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NATURE ACROSS CULTURES Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures Editor HELAINE SELIN Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Advisory Editor ARNE KALLAND University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nature across cultures : views of nature and the environment in non-western cultures / Helaine Selin, editor; Arne Kalland, advisory editor. p. cm. – (Science across cultures ; v. 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-481-6271-0 ISBN 978-94-017-0149-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5 1. Human ecology–Cross cultural studies. 2. Philosophy of nature–Cross-cultural studies. 3. Indigenous peoples. 4. Nature–Effect of human beings on. 5. Environmental protection. I. Selin, Helaine, 1946- II. Kalland, Arne. III. Series.
ISBN 978-90-481-6271-0
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INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES SCIENCE ACROSS CULTURES: THE HISTORY OF NON-WESTERN SCIENCE
In 1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers published the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, T echnology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. The encyclopedia, a collection of almost 600 articles by almost 300 contributors, covered a range of topics from Aztec science and Chinese medicine to Tibetan astronomy and Indian ethnobotany. For some cultures, specific individuals could be identified, and their biographies were included. Since the study of non-Western science is not just a study of facts, but a study of culture and philosophy, we included essays on subjects such as Colonialism and Science, Magic and Science, The Transmission of Knowledge from East to West, Technology and Culture, Science as a Western Phenomenon, Values and Science, and Rationality, Objectivity, and Method. Because the encyclopedia was received with critical acclaim, and because the nature of an encyclopedia is such that articles must be concise and compact, the editors at Kluwer and I felt that there was a need to expand on its success. We thought that the breadth of the encyclopedia could be complemented by a series of books that explored the top
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