Catherine A. Christen’s research while affiliated with Smithsonian Institution and other places

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Introduction: Environmental History as Public History
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February 2004

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Catherine A. Christen

"History ought to be more than knowledge chasing its own tail. Environmental history ought to have a few ideas to offer the public." - Donald Worster ©2004 by the Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History. All rights reserved.

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... Aun así, es posible identificar ciertas características distintivas o al menos recurrentes. Una es la existencia de dos posturas básicas con implicaciones teóricas y metodológicas, que aquí llamaré la culturalista y la zoológica (Isenberg, 2014;Foote, Gunnels, 2015). 1 La primera favorece la historia de los animales de corte cultural e interpretativo y el uso de los estudios literarios y disciplinas afines. La segunda prefiere acercarse a la zoología, la biología y la etología para entender el pasado animal y presta gran atención a factores materiales y ambientales. ...

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Bestiario latinoamericano: los animales en la historiografía de América Latina
Introduction: Environmental History as Public History
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