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 of life...

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Main Author: Helmreich, Stefan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Paradigm Publishers, 2011-03-25T16:35:59Z.
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