Engaging with Nature
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 20-04-14 10:28
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- Engaging With Nature
- Societies
- Hunter gatherers - living off the surface of the landscape, they split into two groups man and women, the women gather and the men hunt
- Extensive food producers - living off of pastoralism (herding or slash and burn) The Maasai do this
- Industrial societies - collectives such as communist countries or captialist, the use technology to mass produce food for large populations, leading to a division of labour
- Nature vs Culture
- Levi-Strauss - human beings will always view nature and culture as two different things as they need to classify
- Ortner - women are linked closer to nature through childbirth, where men are closer to culture which they value more
- Socail and spiritual repersentation
- Human beings see the world differently
- Those brougt up in material culture see things as shapes and as tangible representations of nature
- Those brought up in other cultures see nature differently using their imagination, vision dream and abstract representation
- Spirts are thought to be embodied in carvings - the Maori conduct rituals to protect and pacify spirits when their wooden carvings are being exhibited
- Tobacco is also sacred and has purifying powers and drives out bad spirits (Native Americans)
- Biocentrism vs Anthropocentric view
- Biocentrism is the view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living
- Anthropocentric is regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence
- Societies
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