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Culture and nature versus culture or nature

This paper discusses the integration of cultural and natural heritage aspects of landscapes. It presents arguments for the further integration of interests but also points to the potential for conflicts between cultural and natural heritage interests. These are predominantly at the site-management level. The important role of the historical layer is stressed as an integral part of the environme...

Bioethics between Nature and Culture

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Nature/culture/seawater.

Seawater has occupied an ambiguous place in anthropological categories of "nature" and "culture." Seawater as nature appears as potentiality of form and uncontainable flux; it moves faster than culture - with culture frequently figured through land-based metaphors - even as culture seeks to channel water's (nature's) flow. Seawater as culture manifests as a medium of pleasure, sustenance, trave...

The Adaptive Nature of Culture

The scientific study of culture is made difficult because many of its definitions are ideational in nature. This creates nervousness among material-minded anthropologists because such definitions imply that culture is ethereal, superorganic, and immaterial. This apprehension is unwarranted. Analogous to data that exists physically on the surface of recording media such as a compact disc, cultur...