Picturing Tropical Nature
Stepan, Nancy Leys
Picturing Tropical Nature [electronic resource] - London : Chicago : Reaktion Books, Limited Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] Feb. 2006 - 283 p.; 26 cm ill (col) - Reaktion Books - Picturing History Ser. .
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Annotation Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are,Picturing Tropical Natureargues, 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 Natureoffers 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
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Picturing Tropical Nature [electronic resource] - London : Chicago : Reaktion Books, Limited Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] Feb. 2006 - 283 p.; 26 cm ill (col) - Reaktion Books - Picturing History Ser. .
License restrictions may limit access.
Annotation Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are,Picturing Tropical Natureargues, 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 Natureoffers 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
Trade Reaktion Books, Limited
9781861891464 1861891466 (Trade Paper) USD 25.00 Retail Price (Chicago Distribution Center) = Picturing Tropical Nature
9781861891464
00314465
909.093 / ST827p