Humans & Nature: Some Reflections

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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 — in other cultures and in our own

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

Foundational Relationships Nature Divinity Society

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)

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

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

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