Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas Contributor(s): Sarmiento, Fausto (Editor), Hitchner, Sarah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1785333968 ISBN-13: 9781785333965 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $141.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
Dewey: 305.8 |
LCCN: 2017011853 |
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 278 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Topical - Ecology |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hitchner, Sarah: - Sarah Hitchner is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Integrative Conservation Research and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A. She is a cultural anthropologist specializing in sacred sites and cultural landscapes of Southeast Asia. Sarmiento, Fausto: -Fausto Sarmiento, is a Professor of Geography and Director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., where as a mountain geographer and expert on Andean ethnoecology, he develops transdisciplinary approaches to critical biogeography and political ecology to achieve sustainable biocultural heritage conservation. |