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