Research Catalog

Title

Forest family : Australian culture, art, and trees / edited by John C. Ryan and Rod Giblett.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Ryan, John (John Charles) (Poet)
• Giblett, Rodney James

Description

xi, 188 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities."--

Series Statement

Critical plant studies : philosophy, literature, culture ; volume 4

Uniform Title

Critical plant studies ; 4.

Subjects

• Old growth forests
• Human-plant relationships
• Western Australia
• History
• Forests in literature
• Old growth forests > Australia > Western Australia > History
• Human-plant relationships > Australia > Western Australia > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introducing Forest family / John C. Ryan and Rod Giblett -- From understory to overstory: critical studies of old-growth trees and forests / John C. Ryan -- Forest giants: locating Southwest Australian old-growth country / John C. Ryan -- Family trees: jarrah, karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup area / Rod Giblett -- Built in the forest: a hamlet history of Giblett cultural heritage / Rod Giblett -- Photographic essay: let no man put asunder/ Juha Tolonen -- From burls to blockades: artistic interpretations of karri trees and forests / John C. Ryan -- Sing the karri, sculpt the jarrah: sustaining old-growth forest through the arts / Robin Ryan -- Old-growth activism: the Giblett forest rescue of 1994 and 1997 / Nandi Chinna.

Call Number

JFE 18-8192

ISBN

• 9789004368644
• 9004368647

LCCN

2018019416

OCLC

1031459910

Title

Forest family : Australian culture, art, and trees / edited by John C. Ryan and Rod Giblett.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical plant studies : philosophy, literature, culture ; volume 4

Critical plant studies ; 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ryan, John (John Charles) (Poet), editor.

Giblett, Rodney James, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Forest family. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018] 9789004368651 (DLC) 2018022010

Research Call Number

JFE 18-8192