Encompassing Nature
Subtitle: Nature and Culture from Ancient Times to the Modern World
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: March 19, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1248
ISBN-13: 9781582430096
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Folklore; Nature/Ecology; Nature; NAT000000; NAT; Essays; Science / Environmental Science; General
First sentence: In the absence of writing, and for the most part of spoken languages understood outside their immediate regions, the richly complex traditions of tribal cultures remained largely unknown to others, except as bizarre curiosities of "savage," until the last two centuries, when both dedicated amateurs and trained ethnographers have labored to understand and make them known.