Ethnoecological Aesthetics

Author: Huang Bingsheng / Yuan Dingsheng (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Ethno-ecological aesthetic research is an important field within the study of ecological aesthetics. The relationship between humans and nature, as well as the relationship between humans and the environment, are often reflected through the relationship between ethnic groups and nature, as well as the relationships among different ethnic groups. To reveal whether the current state of human existence and life conforms to the laws of beauty, it is essential to observe the ecological conditions and life states of ethnic groups, particularly marginalized ones. Compared to the mainstream culture of the world that has developed tool rationality to a great extent, ethnic minorities have maintained a closer relationship with nature. Their cultures are rich in ecological wisdom, and to explore how humans can live aesthetically and dwell poetically, there are undoubtedly more insights to be found in their cultures. By conducting ethno-ecological aesthetic research, general principles of ecological aesthetics can be discovered, laying a solid foundation for the theoretical framework of ecological aesthetics. This process of summarizing the general from the specific and elevating the partial to the whole is also a path of theoretical research.