Antarctica and the Humanities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781137545749
Subjects: Antarctica; Polar regions, history
Description: The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human poopulation, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.