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1 online resource (1 audio file (420 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Alembics.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Danny Campbell. |
| Summary |
In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna-mammoths, whales, and the North American bison-beginning with the moments that these species' extinction or endangerment began to generate significant print archives: transcriptions of traditional Indigenous oral narratives, historical and scientific accounts, and literary narratives by Indigenous American and Euro-American authors. Sweet investigates culturally distinct ways of understanding the extinction of the mammoths; the impact of the Euro-American whaling industry and the revitalization of Native American whaling traditions; and the bison's near-extermination at the hands of white market hunters and today's Euro-American and Native American efforts on behalf of the animal's preservation. He reflects on humans' relations with animals through models of divine preservation, competitive extermination, evolutionary determination, biophilia, and treaties with animals. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Human-animal relationships -- America -- History.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human ecology in literature.
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Animals in literature.
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Mammals -- Effect of human beings on -- America.
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Whales -- Effect of human beings on -- America.
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American bison -- Effect of human beings on -- America.
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Extinction (Biology)
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Campbell, Danny.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9798765024034 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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8765024036 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14934423 |
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