Indigenous vision : peoples of India, attitudes to the environment

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Indigenous vision : peoples of India, attitudes to the environment

edited by Geeti Sen

Sage Publications ; India International Centre, 1992

  • : India
  • : U.S.

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Summary: Contributed articles with reference to selected tribes

Includes bibliographical references

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This volume examines the environmental practices of the indigenous populace of India. Using case studies the contributors present the rituals and folklore of the indigenous populace to show how they are shaped by their own environment and are reflected in the ingrained ethics of ecobalance.

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Editorial - B K Roy Burman Homage to Earth PART ONE: PERSPECTIVE Gaia is the Source of All Benefits - Edward Goldsmith Tradition and Change - Marta Vannucci The Earth as Sacred Environs - Krishna Chaitanya Only One Earth - Maurice F Strong Adivasis of Gujarat - Haku Shah A Photo Essay PART TWO: MYTH Invocation - Sitakant Mahapatra Rites of Propitiation in Tribal Societies The Munda Epic - K S Singh An Interpretation Garo Myths - Suneet Chopra The Environment as Lexicon Oraons - Virginius Xaxa Religion, Customs and Environment PART THREE: IMAGINATION Art and the Adivasi - J Swaminathan Maati - Haku Shah and Geeti Sen Born from the Earth The Churning of the Ocean of Milk-Myth Image and Ecology - Joanna Williams Ecology and Indian Myth - Kapila Vatsyayan PART FOUR: ECO-BALANCE Sacred Groves - Madhav Gadgil and M D Subash Chandran The Sustainable Lifestyle of the Warlis - Winin Pereira Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation - Vandana Shiva Jhum - P S Ramakrishnan and Suprava Pathaik Slash and Burn Cultivation Traditional Systems of Water Harvesting and Agroforestry - Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain PART FIVE: CHANGING REALITIES The Indigenous Culture of Zanskar - Sandhya Chatterji Myth, Fable and Guile - Dunu Roy The Art of Survival in Shahdol We Will Always be Gujar - David H Turner The Politics of Nomadism in Northern Himachal Pradesh A House is Not a Home - Ramesh Kumar Biswas PART SIX: INTERVIEW Interview with The Strength of a People's Movement - Medha Patkar

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