Animals and nature : cultural myths, cultural realities / Rod Preece.
Pubblicazione:
Vancouver : UBC press, 1999.
Descrizione fisica:
XXVII, 305 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: The denigration of the West. 1. Advocacy scholarship 2. Beastliness and brutality 3. Animals all? 4. Rationalism 5. Alienation from nature 6. From the great chain of being to the theory of evolution 7. Aboriginal and oriental harmony with nature 8. Gaea and the universal spirit. Notes. Select bibliography. Index