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Cultural Evolution and Cultural Ecology
2020Abstract Chapter 3 explores cultural evolution, cultural ecology, and the ways environments shape the cultures that exist within them. It discusses whether only humans have culture, Darwin and natural selection, and biological and cultural evolution, and provides examples of biological evolution.
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American Antiquity, 1980
This is a response to Santley's criticisms of my suggestions concerning Monte Albán, the ancient Zapotec capital. It consists of first questioning his cultural ecological theoretical base, then showing that his interpretation of the nature of Monte Albán and its hinterland is faulty.
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This is a response to Santley's criticisms of my suggestions concerning Monte Albán, the ancient Zapotec capital. It consists of first questioning his cultural ecological theoretical base, then showing that his interpretation of the nature of Monte Albán and its hinterland is faulty.
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Gastronomica, 2014
This essay samples situated perspectives on food, history, and landscape in the Mediterranean. Reflecting on moments of ethnographic research made resonant by particular tastes, it considers how sustainable foodscapes on the island of Sardinia, Italy, are rooted in both family relations and property systems.
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This essay samples situated perspectives on food, history, and landscape in the Mediterranean. Reflecting on moments of ethnographic research made resonant by particular tastes, it considers how sustainable foodscapes on the island of Sardinia, Italy, are rooted in both family relations and property systems.
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Building Ecological Culture, Showcasing Ecological Wisdom
2021Dire environmental issues have exposed the plight of human culture. The only way to overcome the ecological crisis, protect ecological security and achieve harmony between man and nature is establishing the vision of ecological civilization, changing people’s values, creating the eco-culture system and taking concrete measures to intensify ecological ...
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Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
2012One of the most significant developments in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century has been the emergence of ecocriticism as a new transdisciplinary paradigm in literary and cultural studies. In a most general sense, ecocriticism represents a response of the humanities to the environmental crisis which modern civilization has brought about ...
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European Romantic Review, 2010
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is Byron’s first major expression of his environmental consciousness, a product of the existential embeddedness he achieved during his 1810–11 tour of Greece. Canto 2 represents Greek culture as an evolved outgrowth of its environment, and Greece as a place that depends upon preserving the integration of natural and built ...
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is Byron’s first major expression of his environmental consciousness, a product of the existential embeddedness he achieved during his 1810–11 tour of Greece. Canto 2 represents Greek culture as an evolved outgrowth of its environment, and Greece as a place that depends upon preserving the integration of natural and built ...
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2018
This chapter introduces my concept of the “biotrope” to navigate the broader question of why and how the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture. It then argues that ecocriticism needs to be more skeptical about cultural claims.
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This chapter introduces my concept of the “biotrope” to navigate the broader question of why and how the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture. It then argues that ecocriticism needs to be more skeptical about cultural claims.
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2017
In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces biotropes—material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception—to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be an effective medium for representing culture. A bold and timely reconsideration of ecocriticism, this book insists on decentering questions of culture to highlight
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In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces biotropes—material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception—to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be an effective medium for representing culture. A bold and timely reconsideration of ecocriticism, this book insists on decentering questions of culture to highlight
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