| Preface |
Lawrence E. Sullivan
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| Series Foreword |
Mary Evelyn Tucker
and John A. Grim |
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| Introduction |
John A. Grim |
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| Prologue |
Richard Nelson |
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| Chapter
1 |
Fragmented
Communities
“Intellectual Property Rights and the Sacred
Balance: Some Spiritual Consequences from the Commercialization
of Traditional Resources”
Darrell Addison Posey
“Contextualizing the Environmental Struggle”
Tom Greaves
“In the Eye of the Storm: Tribal Peoples of
India”
Pradip Prabhu
“Shoot the Horse to Get the Rider: Religion
and Forest Politics in Bentian Borneo”
Stephanie Fried
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| Chapter
2 |
Complex
Cosmologies
“Nature and Culture: Problematic Concepts for
Native Americans”
Jack D. Forbes
“Local Knowledges, Global Claims: On the Significance
of Indigenous Ecologies in Sarawak, East Malaysia”
J. Peter Brosius
“Is Indigenous Spiritual Ecology Just a New
Fad? Reflections on the Historical and Spiritual
Ecology of Hawai’i”
Leslie E. Sponsel
“The Road to Heaven: Jakaltek Maya Beliefs,
Religion, and the Ecology”
Victor D. Montejo
“Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua: A Mäori
Philosophy of Vitalism and Cosmos”
Manuka Henare |
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| Chapter
3 |
Embedded
Worldviews
“The Sacred Egg: Worldview, Ecology, and Development
in West Africa”
Ogbu U. Kalu
“Melanesian Religion, Ecology, and Modernization
in Papua New Guinea”
Simeon B. Namunu
“Interface between Traditional Religion and
Ecology among the Igorots”
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
“Religion, Ritual, and Agriculture among the
Present-Day Nahua of Mesoamerica”
Javier Galicia Silva
“The Life and Bounty of the Mesoamerican Sacred
Mountain”
María Elena Bernal-García
“Calabash Trees and Cacti in the Indigenous
Ritual Selection of Environments for Settlement
in Colonial Mesoamerica”
Angel Julián García Zambrano
“Warao Spiritual Ecology”
Werner Wilbert
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| Chapter
4 |
Resistance
and Regeneration
“Hunting, Nature, and Metaphor: Political and
Discursive Strategies in James Bay Cree Resistance
and Autonomy”
Harvey A. Feit
“Sovereignty, Swaraj, and Secession:
Adivasi Encounters with Modernity and Majority”
Smitu Kothari
“Respecting the Land: Religion, Reconciliation,
and Romance—An Australian Story”
Diane Bell
“Kumarangk: The Survival of a Battered People”
Tom Trevorrow and Ellen Trevorrow
“Contemporary Native American Responses to
Environmental Threats in Indian Country”
Tirso A. Gonzales and Melissa K. Nelson |
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| Chapter
5 |
Liberative
Ecologies
“A Guest on the Table: Ecology from the Yup’ik
Eskimo Point of View”
Ann Fienup-Riordan
“Learning from Ecological Ethnicities: Toward
a Plural Political Ecology of Knowledge”
Pramod Parajuli
“Changing Habits, Changing Habitats: Melanesian
Environmental Knowledge”
Mary N. MacDonald
“Indigenous Education and Ecology: Perspectives
of an American Indian Educator”
Gregory Cajete
“Andean Cosmovision and the Nurturing of Biodiversity”
Julio Valladolid and Frédérique
Apffel-Marglin |
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Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Copyright
© 2001 Center for the Study of World Religions,
Harvard Divinity School.
Reprinted with permission. |
