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Subject(s)

• Philosophy of nature [Browse]
• Human ecology—Philosophy [Browse]
• Tropics [Browse]
• Tropics—In art [Browse]
• Tropics—In literature [Browse]

Summary note

• "Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and ecotourism, tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs, and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the "tropicalization of nature" can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the region and its peoples.".
• "Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee.
• Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Going to the Tropics
• 2. An Evolutionist's Tropics
• 3. Racial Degenerations
• 4. Racial Transformations
• 5. The New Tropical Pathology
• 6. Appearances and Disappearances
• 7. Tropical Modernism.

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ISBN

0801438810

LCCN

00060393

OCLC

44868927

RCP

C - S

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