National Geographic Magazine Covers
A quick scan of National Geographic Magazine covers, both the image and lead stories provides us preliminary insight into of nature and culture promoted within its pages visit photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkfeelgrow/sets/72157619144070502/show/]
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Nature reads in terms of flora and fauna and pristine, geographically distinct areas, whereas culture reads in ethnic, low-technology, geographically isolated humans.
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The intersection of nature and culture shows cultural artifacts in remarkable natural landscapes, or romanticized geographically isolated peoples engaged in their daily activities in what NGM construes as natural areas.
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National Geographic Magazines conservation and sustainability ideals center on what Arturo Escobar (1999) terms western or modern society’s technonature, that is technologically modified [read: enhanced] nature.
Myths of Nature in post-WWII National Geographic Car Advertisements by Shwandel N. Fraser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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