Rendering nature animals, bodies, places, politics / edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young.

Other author Shaffer, Marguerite S.
Other author Young, Phoebe S. K. (Phoebe Schroeder Kropp), 1970-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesNature and culture in America
Nature and culture in America.
Contents 1. The nature-culture paradox / Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young -- Part I. Animals. 2. Beasts of the southern wild : slaveholders, slaves, and other animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States / Thomas G. Andrews ; 3. Stuffed : nature and science on display / John Herron ; 4. Digit's legacy : reconsidering the human-nature encounter in a global world / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- Part II. Bodies. 5. The Gulick family and the nature of adolescence / Susan A. Miller ; 6. Children of light : the nature and culture of suntanning / Catherine Cocks ; 7. Dr. Spock is worried : visual media and the emotional history of American environmentalism / Finis Dunaway -- Part III. Places. 8. Prototyping natures : technology, labor, and art on atomic frontiers / Andrew Kirk ; 9. River rats in the archive : the Colorado River and the nature of texts / Annie Gilbert Coleman ; 10. Rocks of ages : the decadent desert and sepulchral time / Frieda Knobloch -- Part IV. Politics. 11. Winning the war at Manzanar : environmental patriotism and the Japanese American incarceration / Connie Y. Chiang ; 12. Unthinkable visibility : pigs, pork, and the spectacle of killing and meat / Brett Mizelle ; 13. "Bring tent" : the Occupy movement and the politics of public nature / Phoebe S.K. Young.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-379) and index.
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LCCN 2016304555
ISBN0812247256
ISBN9780812247251
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