...Andrew McCumber; Patrick Neil Dryden Abstract Archaeology and anthropology treat the presence of animals in mythology and folklore as axiomatically about a culture’s ideas of nature. Sociology often assumes modernity no longer has such myths, but animal imagery abounds. In this article, the authors...

... move that rests on the myth of timeless nature. At the same time, the sexological distinction between constitutional and circumstantial homosexuality relies on two types of teleological temporality: developmental and degenerative time of evolutionary change. The zoo is not only a place where education...

... could comfortably live. The story, told in white papers, at scientific conferences, and to broader publics, features a mother astronomer explaining to her children the potential worlds that await them in the cosmos. This essay uses this myth as a starting point to examine relationships between humans...

... rewilding extinction memory myth haunting Scotland In a vast, gray building on the outskirts of Edinburgh lies the National Museum of Scotland collections facility. A cavernous maze, it is stuffed full of objects and specimens not kept on display in the museum itself. I have been lucky enough...

.... Miller et al. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005). See also Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). 21 Eisler, “Tomorrow's Children,” 47-8. 22 David Orr, “What Is Education For? Six Myths about the Foundations of Modern...

... the first to do so. Examining reports of earlier introductions and sightings, the authors convincingly argue that the birds had already become established prior to Schieffelin’s project. Second, they trace how ornithology built the starling myth based on one account by a key figure, Frank Michler Chapman...

... as a “free banquet” for Europeans to take from God, not only reads America through a classic terra nullius lens, but he also engages in what William M. Denevan has called the pristine myth, in which the American landscape is seen as “pristine, virgin, a wilderness, nearly empty of people.” 21 This myth...

..., the creation of wilderness areas in the United States involved the removal of Native Americans, the creation of a myth that they never inhabited there, a racist and prejudiced culture tainted with eugenics rhetoric, the exclusion of ethnic minorities from these areas, and the later segregation of these spaces...

... clear that many ancient stories, previously regarded only as legends or myths, may be based on observations of natural phenomena by preliterate peoples. 20 Examples come from stories about meteorite falls, about abrupt disappearances of coastal lands, about volcanic eruptions, and about coastal...

... . Toadvine Ted . “ Six-Myths of Interdisciplinarity .” Thinking Nature 1 www.thinkingnaturejournal.com/volume-1/ (accessed 5 Sept 2013 ) 1 J. Baird Callicott, “A NeoPresocratic Manifesto,” Environmental Humanities 2, (2013): 169-186. 2 Some time ago Freya Matthews...

... dense with wealth represents the dominant myth governing such a system. The myth is that knowledge-economies place “greater reliance on intellectual capabilities than on physical inputs or natural resources.” 8 While it is clear such economies place greater value on particular forms of intellectual...

... to it. Antigone is the first play Sophocles wrote in the trilogy of Theban plays—plays set in and around the city state of Thebes, namely, a functioning agricultural society, formed according to myth by an army of warriors who sprang out of the ground when Cadmus sowed dragon's teeth—the founding agricultural...

... Benjamin, “The Work of Art,” 115. 64 Benjamin's use of the mythic “Blue Flower” in the context of his argument on film technology is representative and exemplary of his complex position beyond myth. In “Dream Kitsch” an earlier essay written in 1927, Benjamin writes: “No one really dreams any...

... 2015 . www.buenosairesherald.com/article/186654/writer-eduardo-galeano-dies-at-74 . Denevan William M. “ The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 .” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82 , no. 3 ( 1992 ): 369 - 85 . Fanon Frantz . Black Skin...

... Library of Life metaphor is its indictment of those who burned the library, who are branded as enemies of knowledge, of literature, and of biodiversity. In one popular myth, the library was burned by the Caliph Omar or Umar (ca. 583–644), one of the most powerful leaders of the expansion of Islam after...

... of Our Nomenclature .” Environmental Humanities 3 ( 2013 ): 129 – 47 . Deane-Drummond Celia . “ Gaia as Science Made Myth: Implications for Environmental Ethics .” Studies in Christian Ethics 9 , no. 2 ( 1996 ): 1 – 15 . Deane-Drummond Celia . “ Joining the Dance: Ecology...

..., the representations draw on the ancient tradition in European culture of viewing Iceland as a place associated with myths, saga literature and explosive forces of nature. One example is the logo of Sagenhaftes Island, showing a book merged with a waterfall. The association of Icelandic art with forces of nature...

... thinking is steeped in science fiction and storytelling practices, as a recourse for new worldings . Fiction and fact are intertwined in the discourses that construct nature and the objects of technoscientific intervention. Myth is an important aspect of this process of production: the narratives we tell...

... and Goals .” Accessed 27 November 2012 . http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/downloads/goals.pdf Slotkin Richard . Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America . University of Oklahoma Press , 1998 . Slotkin Richard . Regeneration Through Violence...

... and nutrients and, in Marder's understanding of plant desire, this is not diminished desire, but rather desire made stronger and more extravagant. In this reading of the myth, guided by a new understanding of plant desire, the story is not about the hopeless flight of a damsel in distress into the illegible...