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Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia

Author : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351588095
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia by : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

Download or read book Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia written by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how ethnic groups living in the Himalayan regions understand nature and culture. The first part addresses the opposition between nature and culture in Asia’s major religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Shamanism. The second part brings together specialists of different representative groups living in the heterogeneous Himalayan region. They examine how these indigenous groups perceive their world. This includes understanding their mythic past, in particular, the place of animals and spirits in the world of humans as they see it and the role of ritual in the everyday lives of these people. The book takes into account how these various perceptions of the Himalayan peoples are shaped by a globalized world. The volume thus provides new ways of viewing the relationship between humans and their environment.

Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands

Author : Alexander Horstmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317422740
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands written by Alexander Horstmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations and raised questions about citizenship and security. The contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands highlight some of these processes taking place at the fringe of the state. Offering an array of comparative perspectives of Asian borders and borderlands in the global context, this handbook is divided into thematic sections, including: Livelihoods, commodities and mobilities Physical land use and agrarian transformations Borders and boundaries of the state and the notion of statelessness Re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands The existence and influence of humanitarians, religions, and NGOs The militarization of borderlands Causing us to rethink and fundamentally question some of the categories of state, nation, and the economy, this is an important resource for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Border Studies, Social and Cultural Studies, and Anthropology. Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia

Author : Peter D. Clift
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030080
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia written by Peter D. Clift and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.

Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya

Author : Megan Adamson Sijapati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317333853
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya by : Megan Adamson Sijapati

Download or read book Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya written by Megan Adamson Sijapati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book presents detailed case studies of lived religion in the Himalaya in this context of rapid change to offer intra-regional perspectives on the ways in which lived religions are being re-configured or re-imagined. Based on original fieldwork, this book documents understudied forms of religion in the region and presents unique perspectives on the phenomenon and experience of religion, discussing why, when, and where practices, discourses, and the category of religion itself, are engaged by varying communities in the region. It yields fruitful insights into both the religious traditions and lived human experiences of Himalayan peoples in the modern era. Presenting new research and perspectives on the Himalayan region, this book should be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and Modernity.

Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000598586
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia by : Jelle J.P. Wouters

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia written by Jelle J.P. Wouters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.

Practising Cultural Geographies

Author : Ravi S. Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811664153
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Practising Cultural Geographies written by Ravi S. Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.

Encounters with the Invisible

Author : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040049354
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Encounters with the Invisible by : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

Download or read book Encounters with the Invisible written by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining material representations of these powers through artefacts, animals, plants and natural substances, while also focusing on narratives of people’s encounters with the invisible that may help them to reconfigure reality. Through these two approaches, the contributions examine new phenomena associated with the concepts of "possession" and "shamanism", which otherwise tend to lead research into well-worn furrows. The book addresses a range of themes, including the gods of the Western Himalayas, death and ritual dissolution among Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal, gods and rivers as legal persons in India, and the problem of conversion disorder in Nepal. Rich in ethnography, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of anthropology, religion, spiritualism, sociology of religion, Himalayan studies, sociology and South Asia.

The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi

Author : Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9788187358312
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi written by Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Deri and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the ninteenth century. --

The Sundarbans

Author : Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9788187358350
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (583 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sundarbans by : Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar

Download or read book The Sundarbans written by Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lower deltaic Bengal, the Sundarbans has always had a life of its own, unique in its distinctive natural aspect and social development. Geographical and ecological evidence indicates that most of the area used to be once covered with dense, impenetrable jungle even as patches of cultivation sprang intermittently into life and then disappeared. A continuous struggle ensued between man and nature, as portrayed in the punthi literature that thrived in lower deltaic Bengal between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The construction of a permanent railroad connecting Calcutta to Canning further facilitated the influx of new ideas and these, subsequently, found expression in the spreading of co-operative movements, formation of peasant organizations, and finally culminated in open rebellion by the peasants (Tebhaga Movement). The struggle between men and the dangerous forests was therefore overshadowed by the conflict among men. This book will be of great interest to students of history, sociology, anthropology and economic geography.

Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal

Author : Michael Hutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131699628X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal by : Michael Hutt

Download or read book Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal written by Michael Hutt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various domains of the Nepali public sphere in which ideas about democracy and citizenship have been debated and contested since 1990. It investigates the ways in which the public meaning of the major political and sociocultural changes that occurred in Nepal between 1990 and 2013 was constructed, conveyed and consumed. These changes took place against the backdrop of an enormous growth in literacy, the proliferation of print and broadcast media, the emergence of a public discourse on human rights, and the vigorous reassertion of linguistic, ethnic and regional identities. Scholars from a range of different disciplinary locations delve into debates on rumours, ethnicity and identity, activism and gender to provide empirically grounded histories of the nation during one of its most important political transitions.

The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317544501
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Contemporary Animism written by Graham Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about animism. This handbook will be invaluable to students and scholars of Religion, Sociology and Anthropology.

Agrifood systems policy research

Author : Sugden, Fraser
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrifood systems policy research written by Sugden, Fraser and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA). New Delhi, India

Global Mountain Regions

Author : Ann Kingsolver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253036887
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Global Mountain Regions written by Ann Kingsolver and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities' responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future.

Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004228365
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origins and migration are core elements in the histories, identities and stories of Tibeto-Burman-speaking populations in the extended eastern Himalayas, a region stretching from eastern Nepal through Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and the hill tracts surrounding Assam, to upland Southeast Asia and southwest China. This book is the first to bring together contemporary research on Tibeto-Burman-speaking hill peoples in this region and the only multi-disciplinary study of the closely related topics of origins and migration in this part of Asia, presenting current research by anthropologists, folklorists, linguists and historians. Through a series of case studies on local and regional populations, the contributors explore origins and migration in relation to theoretical and methodological approaches, language, identity and narrative.

Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal

Author : Davide Torri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317108159
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal written by Davide Torri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas. Opening with an analysis of the ethnic revival of Nepal, the book first considers the Himalayan religious landscape and its people. Specific attention is then given to Helambu, home of the Hyolmo people, within the framework of Tibetan Buddhism. The discussion then turns to the persisting shamanic tradition of the region and the ritual dynamics of Hyolmo culture. The book concludes by considering broader questions of Hyolmo identity in the Nepalese context, as well as reflecting on the interconnection of landscape, ritual and identity. Offering a unique insight into a fascinating Himalayan culture and its formation, this book will be of great interest to scholars of indigenous peoples and religion across religious studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology and South Asian studies.

Teaching Critical Religious Studies

Author : Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350228435
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Critical Religious Studies written by Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you teaching religious studies in the best way possible? Do you inadvertently offer simplistic understandings of religion to undergraduate students, only to then unpick them at advanced levels? This book presents case studies of teaching methods that integrate student learning, classroom experiences, and disciplinary critiques. It shows how critiques of the scholarship of religious studies-including but not limited to the World Religions paradigm, Christian normativity, Orientalism, colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, and class-can be effectively integrated into all courses, especially at an introductory level. Integrating advanced critiques from religious studies into actual pedagogical practices, this book offers ways for scholars to rethink their courses to be more reflective of the state of the field. This is essential reading for all scholars in religious studies.

Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Author : Bron Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441122788
Total Pages : 1927 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature written by Bron Taylor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 1927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, originally published in 2005, is a landmark work in the burgeoning field of religion and nature. It covers a vast and interdisciplinary range of material, from thinkers to religious traditions and beyond, with clarity and style. Widely praised by reviewers and the recipient of two reference work awards since its publication (see www.religionandnature.com/ern), this new, more affordable version is a must-have book for anyone interested in the manifold and fascinating links between religion and nature, in all their many senses.