Indigenous traditions and ecology
Subtitle: the interbeing of cosmology and community
By: edited John A. Grim.
Contributors: Grim, John.
Series: Religions of the world and ecology
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 754
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Religion; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; Ethnophilosophy; Cosmology; Environmental degradation -- Religious aspects; Environmental ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [671]-712) and index.
Table of contents: title: Intellectual property rights and the sacred balance / Darrell Addison Posey; title: Contextualizing the environmental struggle / Tom Greaves; title: In the eye of the storm: tribal peoples of India / Pradip Prabhu; title: Shoot the horse to get the rider / Stephanie Fried; title: Nature and culture / Jack D. Forbes; title: Local knowledges, global claims / J. Peter Brosius; title: Is indigenous spiritual ecology just a new fad? Reflections on the historical and spiritual ecology of Hawai'i / Leslie E. Sponsel; title: The road to heaven / Victor D. Montejo; title: Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua / Manuka Henare; title: The sacred egg / Ogbu U. Kalu; title: Melanesian religion, ecology, and modernization in Papua New Guinea / Simeon B. Namunu; title: Interface between traditional religion and ecology among the Igorots / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz; title: Religion, ritual, and agriculture among the present-day Nahua of Mesoamerica / Javier Galicia Silva; title: The life and bounty of Mesoamerican sacred mountain / María Elena Bernal-García; title: Calabash trees and cacti in the indigenous ritual selection of environments for settlement in colonial Mesoamerica / Angel Julián Garciá Zambrano; title: Warao spiritual ecology / Werner Wilbert; title: Hunting, nature, and metaphor / Harvey A. Feit; title: Sovereignty and Swaraj / Smitu Kothari; title: Respecting the land / Diane Bell; title: Kumarangk / Tom Trevorrow and Ellen Trevorrow; title: Contemporary Native American responses to environmental threats in Indian country / Tirso A. Gonzales and Melissa K. Nelson; title: A guest on the table / Ann Fienup-Riordan; title: Learning from ecological ethnicities / Pramod Parajuli; title: Changing habits, changing habitats / Mary N. MacDonald; title: Indigenous education and ecology / Gregory Cajete; title: Andean cosmovision and the nurturing of biodiversity / Julio Valladolid and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin.