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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| author | Helmreich, Stefan |
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| description | 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 of life itself. A kindred vision
persists today, underwriting ecologically
minded suggestions that we human beings
tune more deeply into our environmentally
embattled Earth. According to such views,
humans might amplify our ecological consciousness
by recognizing that an oceanic
past swims through our most intimate substances:
our blood, sweat, and tears. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/619702022-09-30T17:21:58Z Human Nature at Sea Helmreich, Stefan Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Helmreich, Stefan Helmreich, Stefan 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 of life itself. A kindred vision persists today, underwriting ecologically minded suggestions that we human beings tune more deeply into our environmentally embattled Earth. According to such views, humans might amplify our ecological consciousness by recognizing that an oceanic past swims through our most intimate substances: our blood, sweat, and tears. 2011-03-25T16:35:59Z 2011-03-25T16:35:59Z 2010-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1949-2901 1942-8200 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61970 Helmreich, Stephan. "Human Nature at Sea." Anthropology Now 2.3 Dec.(2010): 49-60. © 2010 Paradigm Publishers. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-5881 en_US www.anthronow.com Anthropology Now Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf Paradigm Publishers MIT web domain |
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