Author: STEPAN, NANCY
Title: Picturing tropical nature
Description: London : Reaktion 2001. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Picturing history. Physical description; 283 p. : ill. maps. 1 port. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; Whether as sublime landscape. malignant wilderness or site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism. tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct. conveyed in literature. travel writing. drawings. paintings. photographs and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the 'tropicalization of nature' can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the tropics and its peoples. This book reflects on the work of several 19th- and 20th-century scientists and artists. including Alexander von Humboldt. Alfred Russel Wallace. Louis Agassiz. Sir Patrick Manson and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; anti-tropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine. Essential to Stepan's analysis are the responses to European projections of artists. scientists and intellectuals living in tropical regions. Subjects; Europeans - Tropics. Philosophy of nature. Nature in art. Philosophy of nature. Tropical medicine. Human ecology - Philosophy. Tropical diseases. Parasitoses. Anthropology. Indigenous peoples. Social history. Tropics - Pictorial works. Tropics - In art. Tropics - In literature. Artistic Representations. Nature. Peoples. Photographs. Painting. Literature. Visual Anthropology. Forests. rainforests ; Nature in art. still life. landscapes & seascapes ; Natural history. country life & pets ; Social & cultural history ; Cultural studies. Central America ; South America ; (c 1800 to c 1900) ; 20th century. Nature / Essays. Science / Earth Sciences / General. Tropics ; Philosophy of nature ; In art ; In literature. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. ISBN: 1861890842. Weight in Kg appr.:

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