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Indigeneity and the sacred : indigenous revival and the conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas
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This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studi...
This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.
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- Creator
- edited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1785333968, 178920495X, 1785333976, 9781785333972, 9781785333965
- OCLC
- ocn989520276
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Geographies of Indigenous Revival and Conservation -- Introduction. Whose Sacred Sites? Indigenous Political Use of Sacred Sites, Mythology, and Religion / Randall Borman -- ch. 1 Connecting Policy and Practice for the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites / Gerard Verschoor -- ch. 2 Structural Changes in Latin American Spirituality: An Essay on the Geography of Religions / Axel Borsdorf -- pt. 2 Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes -- Introduction to Part 2. Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes / Sarah Hitchner -- ch. 3 El Buen Vivir and "the Good Life": A South -- North Binary Perspective on the Indigenous, the Sacred, and Their Conservation / Larry M. Frolich -- ch. 4 Sacred Mountains: Sources of Indigenous Revival and Sustenance / Edwin Bernbaum -- ch. 5 Frozen Mummies and the Archaeology of High Mountains in the Construction of Andean Identity / Constanza Ceruti -- ch. 6 Sacred Sites and Changing Dimensions of Andean Indigenous Identities in Space and Time / Christoph Stadel -- ch. 7 National Park Service Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values to Protected Places / Charles W. Smythe -- pt. 3 Case Studies -- Introduction to Part 3. Case Studies / ch. 8 Collaborative Archaeology as a Tool for Preserving Sacred Sites in the Cherokee Heartland / Benjamin A. Steere -- ch. 9 Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico / Geraldine Patrick Encina -- ch. 10 New Dimensions in the Territorial Conservation Management in Ecuador: A Brief Political View of Sacred Sites in Ecuador / Xavier Viteri -- ch. 11 Sustainability and Ethnobotanical Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon: New Directions for Sacred Site Conservation and Indigenous Revival / Fernando Roca Alcazar -- pt. 4 Conclusion -- Conclusion / John Schelhas