Soil and Culture
Edward Landa, Christian Feller (Editor)
SOIL --beneath our feet --food and fiber --ashes to ashes, dust to dust --dirt Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place--porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This is the enigma that is soil. Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, traditional, and modern societies. It looks at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture, architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose & poetry, religion, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, wine production, health & diet, and disease & warfare. Soil and Culture explores high culture and popular culture--from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient societies and contemporary artists. Contributors from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of Carl Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore Chinese paintings, African mud cloths, Mayan rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and Russian poetry
eBook, English, 2009
Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, 2009
History
1 online resource (XX, 524 pages) : online resource
9789048129607, 9048129605
767187684
Printed edition
Soil and the Visual Arts
The Representation of Soil in the Western Art: From Genesis to Pedogenesis
Deforestation and Erosion Captured in Historical Art of the Pearl River Delta Region, China
Transcendental Aspects of Soil in Contemporary Visual Arts
Merging Horizons
Soil Science and Soil Art
Soil Colors, Pigments and Clays in Paintings
In a Supporting Role: Soil and the Cinema
Under my feet
Soil presence and perspectives in the work of four contemporary visual artists
Dig Deeper
Creating Fiber Art with Soil and Rust
Soil, Subsoil, Priming and Architectural Design
Art by the Ground
Soil and Soul: Literature and Philosophy
To Join the Real and the Mental Place: The Written Earth
"Pochveniks"
"The Poets of The Soil": The Geological School of 20th Century Poetry in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Soil Scientist's Hidden Beloved: Archetypal Images and Emotions in the Scientist's Relationship with Soil
Comprehending Soil within the Context of the Land Community
Core Samples of the Sublime
On the Aesthetics of Dirt
Perspectives on Soil by Indigenous and Ancient Cultures
European Religious Cultivation of the Soil
"Rock
Stone" and "Soil
Earth": Indigenous Views of Soil Formation and Soil Fertility in the West Indies
Mobilizing Farmers' Knowledge of the Soil
Ancient Maya Perceptions of Soil, Land, and Earth
The Soil Memory: Case Study of a Protohistoric Archaeological Site in Senegal
Soil and Health
Soils and Geomedicine: Trace Elements
Do Pedo-Epidemiological Systems Exist?
"Earth Eaters": Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Human Geophagy
Soil
the dark side and the light side
Soil and Warfare
Yellow Sands and Penguins: The Soil of "The Great Escape"
Soils and Soil Pioneers on Stamps
Soil in Comic Strips and Cartoons
Soils and Terroir Expression in Wines
English