Tree Cultures

Author : Paul Cloke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000210952
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tree Cultures written by Paul Cloke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between nature and culture has become a popular focus in social science, but there have been few grounded accounts of trees. Providing shelter, fuel, food and tools, trees have played a vital role in human life from the earliest times, but their role in symbolic expression has been largely overlooked. For example, trees are often used to express nationalistic feelings. Germans drew heavily on tree and forest imagery in nation-building, and the idea of 'hearts of oak' has been central to concepts of English identity. Classic scenes of ghoulish trees coming to life and forests closing in on unsuspecting passers-by commonly feature in the media. In other instances, trees are used to represent paradisical landscapes and symbolize the ideologies of conservation and concern for nature. Offering new theoretical ideas, this book looks at trees as agents that co-constitute places and cultures in relationship with human agency. What happens when trees connect with human labour, technology, retail and consumption systems? What are the ethical dimensions of these connections? The authors discuss how trees can affect and even define notions of place, and the ways that particular places are recognized culturally. Working trees, companion trees, wild trees and collected or conserved trees are considered in relation to the dynamic politics of conservation and development that affect the values given to trees in the contemporary world. Building on the growing field of landscape study, this book offers rich insights into the symbolic and practical roles of trees. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the anthropology of landscape, forestry, conservation and development, and for those concerned with the social science of nature.

Author : Paul Cloke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000213528
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tree Cultures written by Paul Cloke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between nature and culture has become a popular focus in social science, but there have been few grounded accounts of trees. Providing shelter, fuel, food and tools, trees have played a vital role in human life from the earliest times, but their role in symbolic expression has been largely overlooked. For example, trees are often used to express nationalistic feelings. Germans drew heavily on tree and forest imagery in nation-building, and the idea of 'hearts of oak' has been central to concepts of English identity. Classic scenes of ghoulish trees coming to life and forests closing in on unsuspecting passers-by commonly feature in the media. In other instances, trees are used to represent paradisical landscapes and symbolize the ideologies of conservation and concern for nature. Offering new theoretical ideas, this book looks at trees as agents that co-constitute places and cultures in relationship with human agency. What happens when trees connect with human labour, technology, retail and consumption systems? What are the ethical dimensions of these connections? The authors discuss how trees can affect and even define notions of place, and the ways that particular places are recognized culturally. Working trees, companion trees, wild trees and collected or conserved trees are considered in relation to the dynamic politics of conservation and development that affect the values given to trees in the contemporary world. Building on the growing field of landscape study, this book offers rich insights into the symbolic and practical roles of trees. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the anthropology of landscape, forestry, conservation and development, and for those concerned with the social science of nature.

Author : Richard DuFour
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 193676475X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures Built to Last written by Richard DuFour and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change.

Author : Anthony Muhammad
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 1934009997
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming School Culture written by Anthony Muhammad and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures.

Author : Laura Rival
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000324184
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Trees written by Laura Rival and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment. Similarly, in the United States, the giant sequoia of California is an enduring national symbol that inspires intense feelings. As rainforests are sacrificed to the interests of multi-national corporations and traditional ways of life disappear, the status of forests, the cultural significance of trees, and the impact of conservation policies are subjects that have inspired intense engagement. Why do people feel so strongly about trees? With this explosion of interest in environmental issues, a serious study of what trees mean to people has long been overdue. This interdisciplinary book responds to this need by providing the first cross-cultural analysis of tree symbolism. Drawing on rich case studies, contributors explore the processes through which trees are used as metaphors of identity and continuity. Political struggles over forest resources feature prominently, and the perceptions of trees in various cultures provide telling insights into the ways in which human societies conceptualize nature.As well as being a major contribution to the field of symbolic anthropology, this comprehensive study will be essential reading for students in a wide range of courses and for anyone with a keen interest in the politics of ecology, the occult and neo-paganism, and the history and sociology of environmentalism in its widest sense.

Author : Richard A. Jaynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nut Tree Culture in North America written by Richard A. Jaynes and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Lemon
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566997
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tree written by Ralph Lemon and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed choreographer explores the idea of intercultural performance.

Author : Orator Fuller Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of the Central American Rubber Tree written by Orator Fuller Cook and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Wall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000592480
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Value of Trees written by Jeffrey Wall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. This field of value, comprising cosmological, aesthetic, eco-erotic, sentimental, mnemonic value and much more, serves as powerful motivation for the local performance of environmental care. The motivation to maintain and conserve ecology for the purpose of cultural survival will be the central focus of this book, as the conditions of the Anthropocene urgently require the identification, understanding and support of enduring, self-perpetuating biocultural associations. The geographical scope is broad with chapters discussing different tree species from the Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia, Eurasia and Australia and Africa. By focusing on the tree, one of the most reliably cross-culturally-valued and cross-culturally-recognized biological forms, and one which invariably defines expansive landscapes, this work illuminates how folk value binds the survival of more-than-human life forms with the survival of specific peoples in the era of biocultural loss, the Anthropocene. As such, this collection of cross-cultural cases of tree folk value represents a low hanging fruit for the larger project of exploring the power of cultural value of the more-than-human living world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, biodiversity, biocultural studies and environmental anthropology.

Author : Ralph Linton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tree of Culture written by Ralph Linton and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: