People and Places of Nature and Culture

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Preface: From Sustainability to Symbiosis
Part I: Cultural Nature
Chapter 1: The Nature of Natures and the Cultures of Natures
Chapter 2: Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female?)
Part II: Landscape Aesthetics
Chapter 3: Nature’s Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature
Chapter 4: Pleasing Prospects Revista’d: The Gentleman’s Park Estate
Part III: Colonial Country
Chapter 5: Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category
Chapter 6: Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush
Part IV: National Parklands
Chapter 7: Nature Sanctuarized: ‘Our’ National Parks as Modern Cathedrals
Chapter 8: Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks
Part V: Industrial Land Use
Chapter 9: Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony
Chapter 10: Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastorialism
Part VI: Land Symbiotics
Chapter 11: ‘We are the Land Ourselves’: Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape
Chapter 12: Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis
References
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Biological Sciences: Natural History
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