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E.R. Landa, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA; C. Feller, Institut de Recherche pour le

Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France (Eds.)

Soil and Culture

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been

called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeo-

chemical processes is tied to its properties and place—porous, structured, and spatially

variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet

what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This

is the enigma that is soil. Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, tra-

ditional, and modern societies. It looks at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture,

architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose & poetry, religion, philosophy, anthro-

pology, archaeology, wine production, health & diet, and disease & warfare. Soil and

Culture explores high culture and popular culture—from the paintings of Hierony-

mus Bosch to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient societies and contem-

porary artists. Contributors from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of Carl

Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore Chinese paintings, African mud cloths,

Mayan rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and Russian poetry.... more on http://

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▶ This volume explores the link between science and art on an earth and environmen-

tal science level ▶ Soil science is expanding its reach to a broader audience and using

the non-traditional material contained in this book to serve as a bridge to potential new

audiences ▶ The interdisciplinary character of this book is reflective of "environmental

studies" programs, a field blending science and non-science faculties at many campuses

in North America ▶ The content, scope and diversity of this volume’s contributors are

unique, including poets, studio artists, gallery owners, farmers, philosophers, historians,

geographers, geologists and soil scientists ▶ This is a comprehensive volume with con-

tent understandable to both scientists and non-scientists alike without diluting the inter-

est-level for either audience

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