natureculture
natureculture noun: nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
Noun
natureculture (countable and uncountable, plural naturecultures)
- Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
- This manifesto explores two questions flowing from this aberration and legacy: 1) how might an ethics and politics committed to the tlourishing of significant otherness he learned from taking dog–human relationships seriously; and 2) how might stories about dog–human worlds finally convince...2003, Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, page 31
- Natureculture’s visibility in the primatological literature parallels the emergence and proliferation of studies referred to asethnoprimatology.2017, Nicholas Malone, Kathryn Ovenden, “Natureculture”, in Agustín Fuentes, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, page 1
Forms of natureculture
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Origin of natureculture
Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature + culture.
Questions about natureculture
- What does natureculture mean?
- Natureculture means nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
- What part of speech is natureculture?
- Natureculture is a noun.
- What is the plural of natureculture?
- The plural of natureculture is naturecultures.
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