Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
![Woods & People: Putting Forests on the Map]( "Woods & People: Putting Forests on the Map")
Woods & People: Putting Forests on the Map29,99 €![Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation]( "Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation")
Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation117,99 €![The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography]( "The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography")
The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography67,99 €![Cottonwood and the River of Time]( "Cottonwood and the River of Time")
Cottonwood and the River of Time34,99 €![Defending Giants]( "Defending Giants")
Defending Giants53,99 €![Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish]( "Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish")
Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish21,99 €![The Treeline]( "The Treeline")
The Treeline25,99 €
In western scholarship, Africa's so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural relics from a static precolonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this "relic theory" is inadequate for understanding current social and ecological dynamics. "African Sacred Groves "challenges dominant views of these landscape features by redefining the subject matter beyond the compelling yet uninformative term "sacred." This interdisciplinary book by an international group of scholars and conservation practitioners provides a methodological framework for understanding these forests by examining their ecological characteristics, delineating how they relate to social dynamics and historical contexts, exploring their ideological aspects, and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses as sites for community-based resource management and the conservation of cultural and biological diversity.