Abstract:

Anna Zeide grew up as the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants in the woods of southern Arkansas. Her father Boris was an eccentric professor of forestry, whose research touched on Aldo Leopold, a leading thinker in the history of ecology and wilderness conservation. When Anna’s academic path unexpectedly led her to graduate study in the history of science and the environment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she rediscovered Leopold, who had been a professor there in the 1930s and ’40s. Tragically, Boris died in the middle of Anna’s time in graduate school, which led her to return to his past work on Leopold in an effort to recover her and her father’s intellectual connections amid her grief. As she unearthed the controversial reactions to his work, which was critical of Leopold’s ideas of ecosystem thinking, she came to reckon with ideas of authorial identity, family history, and environmental thought.

摘要：

安娜·齐德（Anna Zeide）成长为阿肯色州南部森林中的俄罗斯犹太移民的女儿。她的父亲鲍里斯（Boris）是一位古怪的林业教授，他的研究触及了生态和荒野保护史上的著名思想家奥尔多·利奥波德（Aldo Leopold）。当安娜的学业道路出乎意料地导致她在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校攻读科学和环境史的研究生时，她重新发现了利奥波德，他在1930年代和40年代曾在那儿当过教授。可悲的是，鲍里斯（Boris）死于安娜（Anna）在研究生院的中期，这使她回到了过去在利奥波德（Leopold）的工作，以期在悲伤中恢复她和父亲的智力联系。当她发掘对他的工作的有争议的反应时，这批评了利奥波德的生态系统思想观念，