Intersecting Processes

complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & society

December 12, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Diagrams of society and nature: A simple, but profound, contrast

Cultural anthropologists Schwarz and Thompson (1990, 4-6) use diagrams to illustrate four worldviews concerning nature and the effect society can have on it (Fig. 1).  This classification and the cultural (“grid-group”) theory that underlies it have been widely invoked in … Continue reading

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