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Animals and nature : cultural myths, cultural realities

Author: Rod Preece
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In this book, Rod Preece takes issue with the popular but simplistic view that the Western cultural tradition has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation toward the natural world, particularly animals. He contends that the much-maligned Western tradition has far more to commend it than is customarily recognized, and that the much-vaunted Oriental and Aboriginal orientations to animals and nature have  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rod Preece
ISBN: 0774807245 9780774807241
OCLC Number: 40754464
Description: xxvii, 305 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Advocacy scholarship --
Beastliness and brutality --
Animals all? --
Rationalism --
Alienation from nature --
From the great chain of being to the theory of evolution --
Aboriginal and oriental harmony with nature --
Gaea and the universal spirit.
Responsibility: Rod Preece.
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"In this book, Rod Preece takes issue with the popular but simplistic view that the Western cultural tradition has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation toward the natural world, particularly animals. He contends that the much-maligned Western tradition has far more to commend it than is customarily recognized, and that the much-vaunted Oriental and Aboriginal orientations to animals and nature have habitually been described in a misleadingly rosy hue." "The product of six years of intensive research into comparative religion, literature, philosophy, anthropology, mythology, ethnology, and animal welfare science, Animals and Nature will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in cultural, environmental, and animal welfare issues."--Jacket.

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