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Dryden, Patrick Neil.

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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: The Cultural Meaning of the Tree.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: The Cultural Meaning of the Tree./
Author:	Dryden, Patrick Neil.
Description:	454 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-08A(E).
Subject:	Sociology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3505269
ISBN:	9781267294395

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: The Cultural Meaning of the Tree.
Dryden, Patrick Neil.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: The Cultural Meaning of the Tree. - 454 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012.

This dissertation analyzes the cultural meaning of the tree and the ways in which trees reflect and contribute to important discourses about nature and our relationship with the natural world. Although these discourses are often collectively identified as environmentalism, this all-encompassing term contains subtle but important differences that are occluded by the very language of environmentalism. The most important cultural "location" for this phenomenon is the tree, which is a metonym for nature. The tree, as representation, as idea, and as a physical organism, is deployed and understood in very different ways and for very different purposes. These differences are rendered invisible to many research methods because contemporary American culture treats trees with automatic hagiographic respect. Direct questioning, through survey research or traditional interviewing, will reveal only the superficial respect given to trees. More creative interview methods, along with a close reading of the way trees are treated in popular culture, reveal the divergent sensibilities that use arboreal language as a way to understand and give meaning to the relationship between humans and the physical world. Interviews were conducted in public urban and forested areas in California, Kansas, and New York and complemented by hermeneutic analysis of tree imagery in Christmas decorations, advertising, and landscape. Each interview revolved around the infamous 'If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?' question made popular by Barbara Walters.

ISBN: 9781267294395Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017541
Sociology, General.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: The Cultural Meaning of the Tree.
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