Human/nature : biology, culture, and environmental history / edited by John P. Herron & Andrew G. Kirk ; with a foreword by Carolyn Merchant.

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1999], ©1999.

xiv, 148 pages ; 23 cm

1st ed.

Based on papers from the New Mexico Environmental Symposium held in Albuquerque, April 1996.

Nature's children: environmental history as human natural history / Dan Flores -- Man and nature! sex secrets of environmental history / Virginia Scharff -- Constructing gender in nature: bird society through the eyes of John Burroughs and Florence Merriam Bailey / Vera Norwood -- Re-placing history, naturalizing culture / Max Oelschlaeger -- St. Francis in the low post, or, sustainable development and the nature of environmental stories / William deBuys -- We were born to it: Native Americans, fire, and environmental cultural continuity / John Herron -- Dupes, conspirators, truth seekers, and other breeds: a typology of the human animal in environmental history narratives / Paul Hirt -- Human nature in the vault / Andrew Kirk -- Afterword: a view from across the hall: problems of delineation and value in nature and human nature / Timothy Moy.

Includes bibliographies.