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Book Reviews Book Reviews Asian Perceptions of Nature: a Critical Approach Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland (eds) Richmond, UK: Curzon Press ISBN 0-70070-301-2 (HB) £40.00; 0-70070-290-3 (PB) £18.99. 276 pp. The last few years have seen a plethora of studies emanating from various disciplinary quarters which seek to deconstruct, reconstruct, imagine, re-imagine, define, unwrap - and more - this thing called nature. For some of a post-modernist persuasion we are already 'after nature', and now reflect on what we are encouraged to believe turned out to be a rather suspect social and moral construct invented by modernist Europeans and inflicted on the rest of the world, through the hegemony of a particular tradition of scholarship. Strange then, that 'nature' should still generate such intellectual vigour, still be accompanied by so many unanswered questions, and remarkable that something occupying more-or-less the same ontological and epistemological space should continue to serve as a practical and conceptual means for scientists and ordinary people of varied cultural backgrounds to organise their understandings of the world. This highly readable collection of essays begins by accepting - at least this comes through as a strong editorial line - that the nature-culture theme is omnipresent in all http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Worldviews Brill

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Worldviews , Volume 1 (3): 275 – Jan 1, 1997
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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1363-5247
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Book Reviews Asian Perceptions of Nature: a Critical Approach Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland (eds) Richmond, UK: Curzon Press ISBN 0-70070-301-2 (HB) £40.00; 0-70070-290-3 (PB) £18.99. 276 pp. The last few years have seen a plethora of studies emanating from various disciplinary quarters which seek to deconstruct, reconstruct, imagine, re-imagine, define, unwrap - and more - this thing called nature. For some of a post-modernist persuasion we are already 'after nature', and now reflect on what we are encouraged to believe turned out to be a rather suspect social and moral construct invented by modernist Europeans and inflicted on the rest of the world, through the hegemony of a particular tradition of scholarship. Strange then, that 'nature' should still generate such intellectual vigour, still be accompanied by so many unanswered questions, and remarkable that something occupying more-or-less the same ontological and epistemological space should continue to serve as a practical and conceptual means for scientists and ordinary people of varied cultural backgrounds to organise their understandings of the world. This highly readable collection of essays begins by accepting - at least this comes through as a strong editorial line - that the nature-culture theme is omnipresent in all

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