Indigenous traditions and ecology : the interbeing of cosmology and community

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Indigenous traditions and ecology : the interbeing of cosmology and community / edited John A. Grim.

Grim, John. (Added Author).

Summary:

A new perspective on religions and the environment emerges from this collection. The authors, a diverse group of indigenous and non-native scholars and environmental activists, address compelling and urgent questions facing indigenous communities as they struggle with threats to their own sovereignty, increased market and media globalization, and the conservation of endangered bioregions.

Drawing attention to the pressures threatening indigenous peoples and ways of life, this volume describes modes of resistance and regeneration by which communities maintain a spiritual balance with larger cosmological forces while creatively accommodating current environmental, social, economic, and political changes. -- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 0945454279
ISBN: 9780945454274
ISBN: 0945454287
ISBN: 9780945454281
Physical Description: lxviii, 754 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, ©2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-712) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Intellectual property rights and the sacred balance / 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 / Stephanie Fried -- Nature and culture / Jack D. Forbes -- Local knowledges, global claims / 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 / Victor D. Montejo -- Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua / Manuka Henare -- The sacred egg / 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 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 Garciá Zambrano -- Warao spiritual ecology / Werner Wilbert -- Hunting, nature, and metaphor / Harvey A. Feit -- Sovereignty and Swaraj / Smitu Kothari -- Respecting the land / Diane Bell -- Kumarangk / Tom Trevorrow, Ellen Trevorrow -- Contemporary Native American responses to environmental threats in Indian country / Tirso A. Gonzales, Melissa K. Nelson -- A guest on the table / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- Learning from ecological ethnicities / Pramod Parajuli -- Changing habits, changing habitats / Mary N. MacDonald -- Indigenous education and ecology / Gregory Cajete -- Andean cosmovision and the nurturing of biodiversity / Julio Valladolid, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin.