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...
Main Author: | Helmreich, Stefan (Contributor) |
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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 |
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Paradigm Publishers,
2011-03-25T16:35:59Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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