Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Nature-Culture Paradox -- PART I. ANIMALS -- Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States -- Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display -- Chapter 4. Digit's Legacy: Reconsidering the Human-Nature Encounter in a Global World -- PART II. BODIES -- Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence -- Chapter 6. Children of Light: The Nature and Culture of Suntanning -- Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism -- PART III. PLACES -- Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers -- Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: The Colorado River and the Nature of Texts -- Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time -- PART IV. POLITICS -- Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration -- Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat -- Chapter 13. "Bring Tent": The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.