A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
Mayfair Yang is professor of religious and East Asian studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has authored two monographs: Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: the Art of Social Relationships in China (American Ethnological Society Prize) and Re-enchanting Modernity in China: Ritual Economy and Religious Civil Society in Wenzhou) and has edited two books: Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation and Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China.
Inhaltsangabe
I. Introduction By Prof. Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies/East Asian Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara) II. Exploring Non-Anthropocentric Ontologies Chapter 1: Protecting Life in Taiwan: Can the Rights of Nature Protect all Sentient Beings? By Jeffrey Nicolaisen (Duke Kunshan University, China) III. The Sacralization of Trees and Forests Chapter 2: From Mission to Economy: The Vicissitudes of Daoist Ecological Forests in Minqin County, Gansu Province By Der-Rui Yang (Anthropology, Nanjing University, China) Chapter 3: Homo Arborealus: The Intermeshing of Regimes of Tree-Mindedness By Adam Chau (East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.) IV. Sentient Beings: Engaging with Animals and Divinities in Dreams and Rituals Chapter 4: The Non-Anthropocentricity of Dreaming in Late Classical and Medieval China By Robert Ford Campany (Asian Studies & Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University) Chapter 5: Releasing Animals for Buddhist Merit in the Context of Science and Ecology By Dedong Wei (Institute of Theoretical Buddhist & Religious Studies, Renmin University, China) V. Sacred Sites and Fengshui Landscapes Chapter 6: Fengshui and Livelihoods: Debating Sustainability in the Qing Dynasty By Tristan Brown (History, M.I.T.) Chapter 7: Grave Matters: The Confucian Campaign against Tomb-Removal By Yongjia Liang (Sociology, National University of Singapore / Zhejiang University, China) VI. Negotiating the Divides Between the Secular-Religious and Culture-Nature Chapter 8: Buddhist Environmentalism and Civic Engagement in Secular Shanghai By Weishan Huang (Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
I. Introduction By Prof. Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies/East Asian Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara) II. Exploring Non-Anthropocentric Ontologies Chapter 1: Protecting Life in Taiwan: Can the Rights of Nature Protect all Sentient Beings? By Jeffrey Nicolaisen (Duke Kunshan University, China) III. The Sacralization of Trees and Forests Chapter 2: From Mission to Economy: The Vicissitudes of Daoist Ecological Forests in Minqin County, Gansu Province By Der-Rui Yang (Anthropology, Nanjing University, China) Chapter 3: Homo Arborealus: The Intermeshing of Regimes of Tree-Mindedness By Adam Chau (East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.) IV. Sentient Beings: Engaging with Animals and Divinities in Dreams and Rituals Chapter 4: The Non-Anthropocentricity of Dreaming in Late Classical and Medieval China By Robert Ford Campany (Asian Studies & Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University) Chapter 5: Releasing Animals for Buddhist Merit in the Context of Science and Ecology By Dedong Wei (Institute of Theoretical Buddhist & Religious Studies, Renmin University, China) V. Sacred Sites and Fengshui Landscapes Chapter 6: Fengshui and Livelihoods: Debating Sustainability in the Qing Dynasty By Tristan Brown (History, M.I.T.) Chapter 7: Grave Matters: The Confucian Campaign against Tomb-Removal By Yongjia Liang (Sociology, National University of Singapore / Zhejiang University, China) VI. Negotiating the Divides Between the Secular-Religious and Culture-Nature Chapter 8: Buddhist Environmentalism and Civic Engagement in Secular Shanghai By Weishan Huang (Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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