Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Guneratne, Arjun

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment, this book examines how the environment is conceptualized among different social groups in the region. A new approach to the study of the environment in South Asia, this book introduces the new thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135192860
• Artikelnr.: 42975691

Autorenporträt

Arjun Guneratne is Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, USA, and the co-editor of Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia , and author of Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal. He is the editor of Himalaya, the journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies and former chair of the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Downward Spiral? Interrogating Narratives of Environmental Change in the
Himalaya 2. Healing Landscapes: Sacred and Rational Nature in Nepal's
Ayurvedic Medicine 3. Perceptions of Forests Amongst the Yakkha of East
Nepal: Exploring the Social and Cultural Context 4. A Forest Community or
Community Forestry? Beliefs, Meanings and Nature in North-Western Nepal 5.
Where God's Children Live: Symbolizing Forests in Nepal 6. Clear Mountains,
Blurred Horizons: Limbu Perceptions of Their Physical World 7. The Role of
Religion in Conservation and Degradation of Forests: Examples from the
Kumaun Himalaya 8. The Abuse of Religion and Ecology: The Vishva Hindu
Parishad and Tehri Dam 9. Restoration and Revival: Remembering the Bagmati
Civilization 10. Beyond Cultural Models of the Environment: Linking
Subjectivities of Dwelling and Power