Culture and the environment in the Himalaya

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    • Guneratne, Arjun

書誌事項

Culture and the environment in the Himalaya

edited by Arjun Guneratne

(Routledge contemporary South Asia series, 24)

Routledge, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy makers in the fields of environmental conservation and development. The chapters in this book analyse the symbolic schema that shape human-environment relations, whether that of scientists studying the Himalayan environment, public officials crafting policy about it, or people making a living from their engagement with it, and the way that natural phenomena themselves shape human perception of the world. 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 and uses Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment.

目次

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

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