portada Picturing Tropical Nature (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Nancy Leys Stepan

Editorial

Reaktion Books

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.2x14.9x2 cm

Peso

0.61 kg.

ISBN

1861891466

ISBN13

9781861891464

N° edición

0002

Categorías

Naturaleza y mundo natural: interés general

Picturing Tropical Nature (en Inglés)

Nancy Leys Stepan (Autor) · Reaktion Books · Tapa Blanda

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Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are, Picturing Tropical Nature argues, largely a construct of American and European imaginations. Nancy Leys Stephan asserts that images of the tropics conveyed through drawings, paintings, photographs, literature, and travel writings are central to what Stepan calls the "tropicalization of nature," or the often harmful misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples. She here examines several aspects of such tropicalization as they emerge through the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. From the earliest photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races to depictions of disease in new tropical medicines, Picturing Tropical Nature offers new insight into the convergence of the tropics with European and American science and art. "A brilliant and provocative book . . . the kind of book that carries forward a field in a single stride . . . undoubtedly the finest account of 'tropicality' we have."--Social History of Medicine