Cultures of Nature
Subtitle: An Essay on the Production of Nature (Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism)
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: March 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780813013404
Subjects: Sociology; Social Sciences (General); General; Cultural studies; Human ecology; Metaphysics & ontology; Sociology, Social Studies; Philosophy of nature; Nature; Relativity; Social sciences
First sentence: AS A YOUNG ANTHROPOLOGIST in the late 1940s, Melford Spiro was convinced of the soundness of cultural determinism and cultural relativism.