Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities

by Rod Preece

In this book, Rod Preece takes issue with the popular but simplistic view that the Western cultural tradition has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation toward the natural world, particularly animals. he contends that the much-maligned Western tradition has far more to commend it than is customarily recognized, and the much-vaunted "Oriental" and Aboriginal orientations to animals and nature have habitually been described in a misleadingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774807245
• ISBN13: 9780774807241
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"