Wolfram H. Dressler

For the Sake of Forests and Gods

Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands

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Produktbeschreibung

"A study of how the work of both environmental NGOS and religious evangelicals converges in the Philippine uplands to focus on modifying the bodies, beliefs, and behavior of the Indigenous Pala'wan people in the name of sustainability and religious purity"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781501779268
• ISBN-10: 1501779265
• Artikelnr.: 71904384

Autorenporträt

Wolfram H. Dressler is Professor at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Old Thoughts in New Ideas, and coeditor of Nature(TM) Inc.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Governing the Ungoverned
1. Biopolitics, Materialities, and the Politics of Difference
2. Upland Living and Tingkep Worlds
3. Spanish Colonists, Forests, and Gods
4. American Foresters, Nonstate Rule, and the Tribal "Other"
5. Of Forests and Gods
6. For the Sake of Forests
7. For the Sake of Gods