[PDF.82ml] Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala

Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala

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 | #3582621 in Books |  2004-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x6.00l,.72 | File type: PDF | 199 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| More about how Guatemalan and Louisianian culture regards big old trees than the trees themselves.|By lyndonbrecht|This is a fairly short book that seems to have its origins in her dissertation on these trees.

It's an imaginative cross-cultural comparison of the history, use and cultural attitudes towards big old trees--Louisiana and Guatemala. Because her fieldwork| |"...[A]n eloquent book that uses two species of large trees, live oaks in Louisiana and ceibas in Guatemala, to demonstrate the multiple ways that humans have transformed, and in turn have been transformed by, their environments." (Journal of Cultural Geogr

Big old trees inspire our respect and even affection. The poet Walt Whitman celebrated a Louisiana live oak that was solitary "in a wide flat space, / Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near." Groves and alleys of live oaks remain as distinctive landscape features on Louisiana's antebellum plantations, while massive individuals still cast their shade over churches, graveyards, parks, and roads. Cajuns have adopted the "Evangeline Oak" as one ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala   |  Kit Anderson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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