Sacred Forests of Asia (eBook, PDF)

Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation
Redaktion: Coggins, Chris; Chen, Bixia

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000577808
• Artikelnr.: 63741428

Autorenporträt

Chris Coggins is Professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. He is editor and author of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (2014, with Emily Ting Yeh); The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (2003); and The Primates of China: Biogeography and Conservation Status-Past, Present, and Future (2002). Bixia Chen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. She is co-editor of Traditional Rural Landscapes in Island Topography in East Asia (2012, with Yuei Nakama).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Forests
Rivers
and Civilizations-The Oikos
Polis
and Cosmos of Asia's Sacred Groves
Part 1 South Asia - Sacred Forests and Human-Environment Relations
1. The Politics and Poetics of Forested Sacred Natural Sites in East-Central India
2. "Come Let Us All Play": Sacred Groves
Sarna
and "Green" Politics in Jharkhand
India
3. Forest Gods and Forest Conservation: Local Perceptions of Village Sacred Forests in the Bhimashankar Region
Western India
4. Daikhos-Sacred Groves
Clan Rituals
and Gender Exclusion Among the Dimasas of Assam
5. Muslim Graveyard Groves: Plant Diversity
Ecosystem Services
and Species Conservation in Northwest Pakistan
6. Sacred Forests as Sites of Bio-Cultural Resistance and Resilience in Bhutan Can Tamil Sacred Groves Survive Neoliberalism?
Part 2 East Asia - Sacred Forests and Human-Environment Relations
7. China's Fengshui Forests: The Fate of Lineage Wind-Water Polities Under Ecological Civilization
8. Korea's Sacred Groves-The Maeulsoop: Forest Types
Ecosystem Services
and Current Distribution
9. Utaki and Ashagi Sacred Forests in the Ryukyu Islands: Vegetation Structure and Conservation Management Challenges
10. Nostalgia
Restoration
and Reinventions of Sacred Groves in Xishuangbanna
Southwest China Shrine Forests in Honshu
Japan
Part 3 Southeast Asia - Sacred Forests and Human-Environment Relations
11. Stories of the Trees: Understanding Traditions and Transitions in the Katu Peoples' Perceptions of Forests in Central Vietnam
12. The Katu Spirit Landscape: Forests
Ecology
and Cosmology in the Central Annamites
13. Roles and Importance of Sacred Forests for Biodiversity Conservation in Thailand
14. The Role of Spirits in Indigenous Ontologies and Their Implications for Forest Conservation in Karen State
Myanmar
15. Sacred Forests
Sacred Natural Sites
Territorial Ownership
and Indigenous Community Conservation in Indonesia
16. Governance Must Evolve to Meet New Needs of Indonesian Forest Communities The Sacred Forest of the Orang Rimba Hunter-Gatherers of Sumatra
Part 4 Asian Sacred Forests in Global Perspective - Conclusions and Preludes: The Many Lives of Sacred Forests
Afterword