How Did Cows Construct the American Cowboy?
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
Eriksson and Arnell address the ecological and cultural effects of the Swedish infield system in Scandinavia. Their essay sheds light on how the human construction and management of infields maintained a spatial continuity that greatly altered, and continues to impact, how humans and other organisms have developed.
Kluiving and Hamel explore why the Anthropocene emerged. They suggest that an analysis of global changes in human niche construction using geoarchaeological data offers new perspectives on the causes and effects of the Anthropocene.
Ellis argues that the unparalleled capacity of human societies to construct ecological niches at growing social and spatial scales has allowed them to alter the Earth permanently and profoundly.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.
Veit Braun explores the troubling and often contradictory nature of care, revealing the restrictions of simplifying the duality of caring or violent states.
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
Twigg traces the journey of Wimmera ryegrass from Europe to Australia, exploring the profound role it has played in shaping farming practices in southern Australia.
Katie Holmes explores the making of masculinity and the nation-making activity of agricultural practices in Billy Boyd’s photography of settlers in Australia’s Mallee Country.
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.