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natureculture en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁-sḱé-ti Proto-Italic *gnāskōrder. Latin nāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin nātūralbor. Old French naturebor. Middle English nature English nature Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō ▲ Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English natureculture Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature + culture.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
   • Through choosing the scope, process, and framework of this examination of natureculture by explicating narratives of silviculture, then, I recognize that to do so under the umbrella of "Anthropocene thinking" is to invoke throughout the "explosion" of the nature/culture bifurcation happening in both humanist and scientific fields. 2019, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Planting the Anthropocene: Rhetorics of Natureculture, Utah State University Press, pages 10–11:
   • This manifesto explores two questions flowing from this aberration and legacy: 1) how might an ethics and politics committed to the tlourishing of significant otherness he learned from taking dog–human relationships seriously; and 2) how might stories about dog–human worlds finally convince brain-damaged US Americans, and maybe other less historically challenged people, that history matters in naturecultures? 2003, Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, page 31:
   • Natureculture’s visibility in the primatological literature parallels the emergence and proliferation of studies referred to asethnoprimatology. 2017, Nicholas Malone, Kathryn Ovenden, “Natureculture”, in Agustín Fuentes, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, page 1:

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