To Civility and to Man's Use
History, Culture, and Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4487460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I G Simmons (0000-0002-3637-4827, Durham University, corresponding author), Isaiah Simmons (0000-0002-7192-9453, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 114 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/215874 |
| OpenAlex | W4237705735, W2028144757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
An attempt is made to give a 10,000-year perspective on the relations of history, culture, and the nonhuman world called nature. A Holocene narrative of processes separates human societies and their cultures: things that individuate and pull apart to the point of fragmentation versus those that are binding. These tendencies toward convergence may coalesce, as with the natural sciences or global electronic technology. Equally, they may involve centrifugal processes, as in the creative arts or in forms of representation accessible only to certain groups or cultures. The environment resonates in a series of segmented channels, considerably complicated by a binary Western culture, often with 1 as acceptable and o as the Other. Is a purposeful path laid down by someone else and followed to its predetermined end in Utopia, or do we cherish something more open and contingent
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Civility · Convergence (economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · The arts · Utopia · Visual arts · American Environmental and Regional History · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2000 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |