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Sacred Forests of Asia - Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (Hardcover)
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Sacred Forests of Asia - Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (Hardcover)
Series: The Earthscan Forest Library
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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. Given
the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume
discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies,
traditional local resource management practices, and environmental
governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and
post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from
political ecology, the book views ecology and polity as
constitutive elements interacting within local, regional, and
global networks. Readers will find the very first systematic
comparative analysis of sacred forests that include the karchall
mabhuy of the Katu people of Central Vietnam, the leuweng kolot of
the Baduy people of West Java, the fengshui forests of southern
China, the groves to the goddess Sarna Mata worshiped by the Oraon
people of Jharkhand India, the mauelsoop and bibosoop of Korea, and
many more. Comprising in-depth, field-based case studies, each
chapter shows how the forest's sacrality must not be conceptually
delinked from its roles in common property regimes, resource
security, spiritual matters of ultimate concern, and cultural
identity. This volume will be of great interest to students and
scholars of indigenous studies, environmental anthropology,
political ecology, geography, religion and heritage, nature
conservation, environmental protection, and Asian studies.
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