
Nature and Power
The Social Construction of Nature From the Stone Age to the Hellenistic Times in Eurasia
Manussos Marangudakis(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 20. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-3-659-56208-2 (ISBN)
Description
Were the ancients more friendly to Nature than us the moderns? Is there any moment in time that heralds the Great Divide between humans and nature? How could we account for environmental collapses such as the Pleistocene Overkill, massive deforestations and desertifications that occurred in the midst of peoples who worshiped Mother Nature? The monograph explores the social patterns of the ancient world as they are structured around three distinct phases of social evolution: (a) hunters and gatherers, (b) sedentary communities, and (c) civilizational centers of intense social inequality. The study juxtaposes economic vis. ideological social networks of power to identify the relation and the interaction between distinct social processes and structures that signify the unique ways humans exploited nature and built their worldviews.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
483 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-659-56208-2 (9783659562082)
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Manussos Marangudakis, PhD., studied Sociology at McGill University. Currently he is employed as Associate Professor at the University of the Aegean, Lesvos isl. Greece. He has published extensively on the Social Construction of Nature and the formation of Axial Civilizations and the civilization of Modernity.