Indigeneity and the sacred : indigenous revival and the conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas

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Indigeneity and the sacred : indigenous revival and the conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas / edited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner.

Sarmiento, Fausto O., (editor.). Hitchner, Sarah, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781785333965
ISBN: 1785333968
ISBN: 9781789204957
ISBN: 178920495X
Physical Description: xxi, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: whose sacred sites? Indigenous political use of sacred sites, mythology, and religion / Randall Borman -- Connecting policy and practice for the conservation of sacred natural sites / Bas Verschuuren, Robert Wild, and Gerard Verschoor -- Structural changes in Latin American spirituality: an essay on the geography of religions / Axel Borsdorf -- Introduction to part 2: framing sacred sites in Indigenous mindscapes / Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner -- El buen vivir and "the good life": a north-south binary perspective on the Indigenous, the sacred, and their conservation / Esmeralda Guevara and Larry M. Frolich -- Sacred mountains: sources of Indigenous revival and sustenance / Edwin Bernbaum -- Frozen mummies and the archaeology of high mountains in the construction of Andean identity / Constanza Ceruti -- Sacred sites and changing dimensions of Andean Indigenous identities in space and time / Christoph Stadel -- National Park Service approaches to connecting Indigenous cultural and spiritual values to protected places / David E. Ruppert and Charles W. Smythe -- Introduction to part 3: case studies / Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner -- Collaborative archaeology as a tool for preserving sacred sites in the Cherokee heartland / Benjamin A. Steere -- Biocultural sacred sites in Mexico / Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz and Geraldine Patrick Encina -- New dimensions in the territorial conservation management in Ecuador: a brief political view of sacred sites in Ecuador / Xavier Viteri O. -- Sustainability and ethnobotanical knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon: new directions for sacred site conservation and Indigenous revival / Fernando Roca Alcázar.