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title Earth Air Fire Water Humanistic Studies of the Environment - photo 1

title:Earth, Air, Fire, Water : Humanistic Studies of the Environment
author:Conway, Jill K.
publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin:1558492208
print isbn13:9781558492202
ebook isbn13:9780585341798
language:English
subjectEnvironmental degradation--Social aspects, Nature--Effect of human beings on.
publication date:1991
lcc:GE140.E18 1999eb
ddc:304.2/8
subject:Environmental degradation--Social aspects, Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Page iii
Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Humanistic Studies of the Environment
Edited by
Jill Ker Conway,
Kenneth Keniston,
and Leo Marx
Page iv Copyright 1999 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights - photo 2
Page iv
Copyright 1999 by
The University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
LC 9916970
ISBN 1-55849-220-8 (cloth); 2216 (paper)
Designed by Dennis Anderson
Set in Janson Text by Graphic Composition, Inc.
Printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Earth, air, fire, water : humanistic studies of the environment /
edited by Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-55849-220-8 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-221-6
(pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Environmental degradationSocial aspects. 2. NatureEffect
of human beings on. I. Conway, Jill K., 1934-. II. Keniston, Kenneth.
III. Marx, Leo, 1919-.
GE140.E18 1999
304.2'8dc21 9916970
CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the
University of Massachusetts Boston.
Page v
From that Brahman which is the Self was produced space From space emerged - photo 3
From that Brahman, which is the Self, was produced space.
From space emerged air. From air was born fire.
From fire was created water. From water sprang up earth.
From earth were born the herbs.
Taittiriyopanishad 21
Source: Eight Upanishads, translated by Swami Gambhirananda, Advaita Ashrama,
Calcutta (1977), 287
Page vii
CONTENTS
Preface
ix
The New Environmentalisms
Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx
1
I. Historical Studies
Introduction (JKC)
31
As the World Runs out of Breath: Metaphorical Perspectives on the Heavens and the Atmosphere in the Ancient World
Gregory Nagy
37
Climate and History: Lessons from the Great Plains
Donald Worster
51
Consumed by Either Fire or Fire: A Prolegomenon to Anthropogenic Fire
Stephen J. Pyne
78
Only a World Perspective Is Significant: Settlement Frontiers and Property Rights in Early Modern World History
John F. Richards
102
II. Social Studies
Introduction (KK)
119
Environmentalism and Indian Peoples
Richard White
125
Indigenous Rights, Environmental Protection, and the Struggle over Forest Resources in the Amazon: The Case of the Brazilian Kayapo
Terence Turner
145

Page viii
Grassroots Environmental Activism: The Toxics Movement and Directions for Social Change
Barbara Epstein
170
Russian Environmental Movements
Oleg N. Yanitsky
184
Gender and Environmental Action
Bina Agarwal
206
III. The Question of Modernity
Introduction (LM)
253
Gender, Environment, and Nature: Two Episodes in Feminist Politics
Jill Ker Conway and Yaakov Garb
259
Modernity and the Environment as a Public Issue in Today's Russia
Anton Struchkov
279
Modernity and Literary Theory
Louis Menand
305
Environmental Degradation and the Ambiguous Social Role of Science and Technology
Leo Marx
320
Appendix
339
Notes on Contributors
345

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