Other Natures

Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-34348-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 548 g

Ancient Greek ethnographies—descriptions of other peoples—provide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, as well as anxieties, about how humans relate to nature as a whole. In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder examines the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus to persuasively demonstrate how non-Greek communities affected and were in turn deeply affected by their local animals, plants, climate, and landscape. She shows that these authors used ethnographies of non-Greek peoples to explore, question, and challenge how Greeks ate, procreated, nurtured, collaborated, accumulated, and consumed. In recuperating this important strain of ancient thought, Bosak-Schroeder makes it newly relevant to vital questions and ideas being posed in the environmental humanities today, arguing that human life and well-being are inextricable from the life and well-being of the nonhuman world. By turning to such ancient ethnographies, we can uncover important models for confronting environmental crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bosak-Schroeder, Clara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Greek

Introduction

PART I. ANCIENT PERSPECTIVES

1. Sources and Methods
2. Rulers and Rivers
3. Female Feck
4. Dietary Entanglements
5. Resisting Luxury

PART II. PRESENT CONCERNS

6. After the Encounter
7. Transformation in the Natural History Museum

Notes

References

Index Locorum

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clara Bosak-Schroeder is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.