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Humans & Nature: Some Reflections

Humans & Nature: Some Reflections. Conceptions of Nature. Spiritual or religious Source of sustenance Source of knowledge Subject of knowledge At the service of people (so controllable) Dangerous (so beyond control). Multiple understandings of nature can be in play at once

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Humans & Nature: Some Reflections

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  1. Humans & Nature:Some Reflections

  2. Conceptions of Nature • Spiritual or religious • Source of sustenance • Source of knowledge • Subject of knowledge • At the service of people (so controllable) • Dangerous (so beyond control) Multiple understandings of nature can be in play at once — in other cultures and in our own

  3. Japan: Earthquake & Tsunami, April 7

  4. Morganza Spillway opened May 18

  5. Joplin, MO: Tornado, May 22 A society’s relationship to nature is not static

  6. Foundational Relationships

  7. Describe relationships between people and nature • Time/place specific (not universal) • Greek men and Greek women in the Bacchae • Early modern European/Christian • Western scientific approach of Galileo & Heisenberg •  Khoisan • Contingent • Dynamic (not static)

  8. The Lion and the Jackals • Spirituality • Sustenance • Uneven control • Danger • Change 1) !no, 2) Poo, an animal said to eat the fruit of the !no. Drawing by !nanni. 5/24/1881. Bleek & Lloyd Collection, UCT

  9. Song of the Broken String Consequences of rupture in a society’s relationship with nature

  10. Making meaning with nature The place does not feel to me As the place used to feel to me

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