Growing Stories from India [electronic resource] : Religion and the Fate of Agriculture /
Sanford, A. Whitney,1961-
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,
c2012.
In this book, the author explores how narrative can be useful in guiding our ways of thinking not only about ourselves in the world within the frame of agriculture but also about how we view the task ahead of us - establishing sustainable relations with the earth and the biotic community, which includes human and nonhuman organisms.
Electronic reproduction.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
In this book, the author explores how narrative can be useful in guiding our ways of thinking not only about ourselves in the world within the frame of agriculture but also about how we view the task ahead of us - establishing sustainable relations with the earth and the biotic community, which includes human and nonhuman organisms.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ecological imagination: from paradigm to practice -- Narratives of agriculture: how did we get here? -- Balaram and the Yamuna River: entitlement and presumptions of control -- Borrowing Balaram: alternative narratives -- The festival of Holi: celebrating agricultural and social health -- The land in between: constructing nature, wilderness, and agriculture -- Restoration, reciprocity, and repair: revising the ecological imagination.
Description based on print version record.
Food supply
Agriculture
Alternative agriculture