Other Natures : Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography Hardback
by Clara Bosak-Schroeder
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Ancient Greek ethnographies—descriptions of other peoples—provide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, as well as anxieties, about how humans relate to nature as a whole.
In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder examines the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus to persuasively demonstrate how non-Greek communities affected and were in turn deeply affected by their local animals, plants, climate, and landscape.
She shows that these authors used ethnographies of non-Greek peoples to explore, question, and challenge how Greeks ate, procreated, nurtured, collaborated, accumulated, and consumed.
In recuperating this important strain of ancient thought, Bosak-Schroeder makes it newly relevant to vital questions and ideas being posed in the environmental humanities today, arguing that human life and well-being are inextricable from the life and well-being of the nonhuman world.
By turning to such ancient ethnographies, we can uncover important models for confronting environmental crisis.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:286 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:21/04/2020
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- ISBN:9780520343481
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:286 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:21/04/2020
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- ISBN:9780520343481