Human Nature at Sea

Nineteenth-century Americans and Europeans envisaged the ocean as a sublime space, at once frightening and inviting. Romantic poets such as Byron and Shelley celebrated the sea as a seductive substance with which we humans might seek to merge, dissolving our bodies into the nourishing matrix o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helmreich, Stefan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Paradigm Publishers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61970
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-5881