Kinship to Mastery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kinship to Mastery write by Stephen R. Kellert. This book was released on 2003-10. Kinship to Mastery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kinship to Mastery is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the notion of biophilia -- the idea that humans, having evolved with the rest of creation, possess a biologically based attraction to nature and exhibit an innate affinity for life and lifelike processes. Stephen R. Kellert sets forth the idea that people exhibit different expressions of biophilia in different contexts, and demonstrates how our quality of life in the largest sense is dependent upon the richness of our connections with nature. While the natural world provides us with material necessities -- food, clothing, medicine, clean air, pure water -- it just as importantly plays a key role in other aspects of our lives, including intellectual capacity, emotional bonding, aesthetic attraction, creativity, imagination, and even the recognition of a just and purposeful existence. As Kellert explains, each expression of biophilia shows how our physical, material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual well-being is to a great extent dependent on our relationships with the natural world that surrounds us. Kinship to Mastery is a thought-provoking examination of a concept that, while not widely known, has a significant and direct effect on the lives of people everywhere. Because the full expression of biophilia is integral to our overall health, our ongoing destruction of the environment could have far more serious consequences than many people think. In a readable and compelling style, Kellert describes and explains the concept of biophilia, and demonstrates to a general audience the wide-ranging implications of environmental degradation. Kinship to Mastery continues the exploration of biophilia begun with Edward O. Wilson's landmark book Biophilia (Harvard University Press, 1984) and followed by The Biophilia Hypothesis (Island Press, 1993), co-edited by Wilson and Kellert, which brought together some of the most creative scientists of our time to explore Wilson's theory in depth.
Kinship with All Life
Kinship with All Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kinship with All Life write by J. Allen Boone. This book was released on 1976-01-28. Kinship with All Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience? Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring proof that communication with animals is a wonderful, indisputable fact. All that is required is an attitude of openness, friendliness, humility, and a sense of humor to part the curtain and form bonds of real friendship. For anyone who loves animals, for all those who have ever experienced the special devotion only a pet can bring, Kinship With All Life is an unqualified delight. Sample these pages and you will never encounter "just a dog" again, but rather a fellow member of nature's own family.
The Kinship of Secrets
The Kinship of Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kinship of Secrets write by Eugenia SunHee Kim. This book was released on 2018. The Kinship of Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.
Kinship and Marriage
Kinship and Marriage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kinship and Marriage write by Robin Fox. This book was released on 1983. Kinship and Marriage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New paperback edition of Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance, which has become an established classic of social science literature.
What Kinship Is-And Is Not
What Kinship Is-And Is Not - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Kinship Is-And Is Not write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on 2013-01-25. What Kinship Is-And Is Not available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth of theory and a range of ethnographic examples to form an acute definition of kinship, what he calls the “mutuality of being.” Kinfolk are persons who are parts of one another to the extent that what happens to one is felt by the other. Meaningfully and emotionally, relatives live each other’s lives and die each other’s deaths. In the second part of his essay, Sahlins shows that mutuality of being is a symbolic notion of belonging, not a biological connection by “blood.” Quite apart from relations of birth, people may become kin in ways ranging from sharing the same name or the same food to helping each other survive the perils of the high seas. In a groundbreaking argument, he demonstrates that even where kinship is reckoned from births, it is because the wider kindred or the clan ancestors are already involved in procreation, so that the notion of birth is meaningfully dependent on kinship rather than kinship on birth. By formulating this reversal, Sahlins identifies what kinship truly is: not nature, but culture.
