Religious Role of Trees and Forests in South and Southeast Asia
Author : Joanne Doornewaard
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Forestry projects
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Author : Joanne Doornewaard
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Forestry projects
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Author : David L Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134551770
What part can Hindu and Buddhist traditions play in resolving the ecological problems facing India and South East Asia? David Gosling's exciting study, based on extensive fieldwork, is of global significance: the creation of more sustainable relationships between people and the natural world is one of the most urgent social and environmental problems of the new millennium. David Gosling looks at the religions historically and from a contemporary perspective.
Author : Llewelyn Williams
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Botany
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Author : Paul Greenough
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822385007
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this pathbreaking collection of essays describes projects of exploitation, administration, science, and community protest. With contributors based in anthropology, ecology, sociology, history, and environmental and policy studies, Nature in the Global South features some of the most innovative and influential work being done in the social studies of nature. While some of the essays look at how social and natural landscapes are created, maintained, and transformed by scientists, officials, monks, and farmers, others analyze specific campaigns to eradicate smallpox and save forests, waterways, and animal habitats. In case studies centered in the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, and South and Southeast Asia as a whole, contributors examine how the tropics, the jungle, tribes, and peasants are understood and transformed; how shifts in colonial ideas about the landscape led to extremely deleterious changes in rural well-being; and how uneasy environmental compromises are forged in the present among rural, urban, and global allies. Contributors: Warwick Anderson Amita Baviskar Peter Brosius Susan Darlington Michael R. Dove Ann Grodzins Gold Paul Greenough Roger Jeffery Nancy Peluso K. Sivaramakrishnan Nandini Sundar Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Charles Zerner
Author : European Institute for South and South-East Asian Studies
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : P. A. Stott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 113575280X
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Michael Jensen
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Plants, Useful
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Author : Jenne H. de Beer
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : L. Umans
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Forest management
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Author : J. L. Taylor
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789813016491
This book is a detailed study on the ascetic forest monk tradition in the Lao-speaking provinces of northeastern Thailand in the wake of the early twentieth century politico-religious reforms. The narrative alternates between the periphery and the capital, dealing with historic transformations and persistencies in the social field of wandering forest monks as well as the contemporary impact of this monastic tradition in the wider social and political milieu. The writer uses original ethnographic materials and provides a rare insight into the formation of monastic lineages and the local politico-religious histories of present-day northeastern Thailand.