Sacred Forests of Asia
Subtitle: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation
Series: The Earthscan forest library
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-05-30
Place of publication: Abingdon
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780367698720
Subjects: Political science
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: Chris Coggins and Bixia Chen
title: Forests, Rivers, and Civilizations—The Oikos, Polis, and Cosmos of Asia’s Sacred Groves; label: Part 1
title: South Asia; label: Krishna Gopal Saxena and Chris Coggins
title: South Asia—Sacred Forests and Human-Environment Relations; label: Radhika Borde
title: The Politics and Poetics of Forested Sacred Natural Sites in East-Central India; label: Mukul Sharma
title: "Come Let Us All Play": Sacred Groves, Sarna, and "Green" Politics in Jharkhand, India; label: Shruti Mokashi
title: Forest Gods and Forest Conservation: Local Perceptions of Village Sacred Forests in the Bhimashankar Region, Western India; label: Prithibi Pratibha Gogoi
title: Daikhos—Sacred Groves, Clan Rituals, and Gender Exclusion Among the Dimasas of Assam; label: Abdullah, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Zahoor Ul Haq, and Zeeshan Ahmad
title: Muslim Graveyard Groves: Plant Diversity, Ecosystem Services, and Species Conservation in Northwest Pakistan; label: Elizabeth Allison
title: Sacred Forests as Sites of Bio-Cultural Resistance and Resilience in Bhutan; label: Eliza F. Kent
title: Can Tamil Sacred Groves Survive Neoliberalism?; label: Part 2
title: East Asia; label: Chris Coggins, Bixia Chen, and Dowon Lee
title: East Asia—Sacred Forests and Human-Environment Relations; label: Chris Coggins, Jesse Minor, and Bixia Chen
title: China’s Fengshui Forests: The Fate of Lineage Wind-Water Polities Under Ecological Civilization; label: Dowon Lee, GoWoon Kim, Wanmo Kang, Insu Koh, and Chan-Ryul Park
title: Korea’s Sacred Groves—The Maeulsoop: Forest Types, Ecosystem Services, and Current Distribution; label: Bixia Chen
title: Utaki and Ashagi Sacred Forests in the Ryukyu Islands: Vegetation Structure and Conservation Management Challenges; label: Lily Zeng
title: Nostalgia, Restoration, and Reinventions of Sacred Groves in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China; label: Naoya Furuta
title: Shrine Forests in Honshu, Japan; label: Part 3
title: Southeast Asia; label: Chris Coggins, Nikolas Arhem, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono, Hoan Phan, Ha Le, and Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani
title: Southeast Asia—Sacred Forests and Human-Environment Relations; label: Hoan Thi Phan and Ha Van Le
title: Stories of the Trees: Understanding Traditions and Transitions in the Katu Peoples’ Perceptions of Forests in Central Vietnam; label: Nikolas Arhem
title: The Katu Spirit Landscape: Forests, Ecology, and Cosmology in the Central Annamites; label: Prasit Wangpakapattanawong and Auemporn Junsongduang
title: Roles and Importance of Sacred Forests for Biodiversity Conservation in Thailand; label: Man Han Chit Htoo, Bram Steenhuisen, and Bas Verschuuren
title: The Role of Spirits in Indigenous Ontologies and Their Implications for Forest Conservation in Karen State, Myanmar; label: Yohanes Purwanto
title: Sacred Forests, Sacred Natural Sites, Territorial Ownership, and Indigenous Community Conservation in Indonesia; label: Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono
title: Governance Must Evolve to Meet New Needs of Indonesian Forest Communities; label: Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani
title: The Sacred Forest of the Orang Rimba Hunter-Gatherers of Sumatra; label: Part 4
title: Asian Sacred Forests in Global Perspective; label: Chris Coggins and Bas Verschuuren
title: Conclusions and Preludes: The Many Lives of Sacred Forests; label: Shonil Bhagwat
title: Afterword