Indigenous Vision
Peoples of India Attitudes to the Environment
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 1992
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-0-8039-9450-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the environmental practices of the indigenous populace of India. Using case studies the contributors present the rituals and folklore of the indigenous populace to show how they are shaped by their own environment and are reflected in the ingrained ethics of ecobalance.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
697 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9450-8 (9780803994508)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Editorial - B K Roy Burman
Homage to Earth
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVE
Gaia is the Source of All Benefits - Edward Goldsmith
Tradition and Change - Marta Vannucci
The Earth as Sacred Environs - Krishna Chaitanya
Only One Earth - Maurice F Strong
Adivasis of Gujarat - Haku Shah
A Photo Essay
PART TWO: MYTH
Invocation - Sitakant Mahapatra
Rites of Propitiation in Tribal Societies
The Munda Epic - K S Singh
An Interpretation
Garo Myths - Suneet Chopra
The Environment as Lexicon
Oraons - Virginius Xaxa
Religion, Customs and Environment
PART THREE: IMAGINATION
Art and the Adivasi - J Swaminathan
Maati - Haku Shah and Geeti Sen
Born from the Earth
The Churning of the Ocean of Milk-Myth Image and Ecology - Joanna Williams
Ecology and Indian Myth - Kapila Vatsyayan
PART FOUR: ECO-BALANCE
Sacred Groves - Madhav Gadgil and M D Subash Chandran
The Sustainable Lifestyle of the Warlis - Winin Pereira
Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation - Vandana Shiva
Jhum - P S Ramakrishnan and Suprava Pathaik
Slash and Burn Cultivation
Traditional Systems of Water Harvesting and Agroforestry - Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain
PART FIVE: CHANGING REALITIES
The Indigenous Culture of Zanskar - Sandhya Chatterji
Myth, Fable and Guile - Dunu Roy
The Art of Survival in Shahdol
We Will Always be Gujar - David H Turner
The Politics of Nomadism in Northern Himachal Pradesh
A House is Not a Home - Ramesh Kumar Biswas
PART SIX: INTERVIEW
Interview with
The Strength of a People's Movement - Medha Patkar
Homage to Earth
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVE
Gaia is the Source of All Benefits - Edward Goldsmith
Tradition and Change - Marta Vannucci
The Earth as Sacred Environs - Krishna Chaitanya
Only One Earth - Maurice F Strong
Adivasis of Gujarat - Haku Shah
A Photo Essay
PART TWO: MYTH
Invocation - Sitakant Mahapatra
Rites of Propitiation in Tribal Societies
The Munda Epic - K S Singh
An Interpretation
Garo Myths - Suneet Chopra
The Environment as Lexicon
Oraons - Virginius Xaxa
Religion, Customs and Environment
PART THREE: IMAGINATION
Art and the Adivasi - J Swaminathan
Maati - Haku Shah and Geeti Sen
Born from the Earth
The Churning of the Ocean of Milk-Myth Image and Ecology - Joanna Williams
Ecology and Indian Myth - Kapila Vatsyayan
PART FOUR: ECO-BALANCE
Sacred Groves - Madhav Gadgil and M D Subash Chandran
The Sustainable Lifestyle of the Warlis - Winin Pereira
Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation - Vandana Shiva
Jhum - P S Ramakrishnan and Suprava Pathaik
Slash and Burn Cultivation
Traditional Systems of Water Harvesting and Agroforestry - Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain
PART FIVE: CHANGING REALITIES
The Indigenous Culture of Zanskar - Sandhya Chatterji
Myth, Fable and Guile - Dunu Roy
The Art of Survival in Shahdol
We Will Always be Gujar - David H Turner
The Politics of Nomadism in Northern Himachal Pradesh
A House is Not a Home - Ramesh Kumar Biswas
PART SIX: INTERVIEW
Interview with
The Strength of a People's Movement - Medha Patkar