natureculture

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noun

Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounnatureculture (countable and uncountable, plural naturecultures)

plural naturecultures

  1. countableuncountableNature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.

    Natureculture’s visibility in the primatological literature parallels the emergence and proliferation of studies referred to asethnoprimatology.

    2017, Nicholas Malone, Kathryn Ovenden, “Natureculture”, in Agustín Fuentes, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, page 1
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    This manifesto explores two questions flowing from this aberration and legacy: 1) how might an ethics and politics committed to the tlourishing of significant otherness he learned from taking dog–human relationships seriously; and 2) how might stories about dog–human worlds finally convince brain-damaged US Americans, and maybe other less historically challenged people, that history matters in naturecultures?

    2003, Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, page 31

    Through choosing the scope, process, and framework of this examination of natureculture by explicating narratives of silviculture, then, I recognize that to do so under the umbrella of "Anthropocene thinking" is to invoke throughout the "explosion" of the nature/culture bifurcation happening in both humanist and scientific fields.

    2019, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Planting the Anthropocene: Rhetorics of Natureculture, Utah State University Press, pages 10–11

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₁-sḱé-ti
  3. Proto-Italic*gnāskōr
  4. Latinnāscor
  5. Latinnātūra
  6. Old Frenchnature
  7. Middle Englishnature
  8. Englishnature
  9. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  11. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  12. Latincolō
  13. Latincultūra
  14. Middle Frenchculture
  15. Englishculture
  16. Englishnatureculture

Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature + culture.

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APA

natureculture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natureculture

MLA

“natureculture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natureculture. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “natureculture,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natureculture.

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