Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach

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ISBN: 9780700702909 | 0700702903
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Copyright: 2/8/1995

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This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect.

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Images of Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Man-Environment Relations in Asia	p. 1
Socio-Political Structures and the Southeast Asian Ecosystem: An Historical Perspective up to the Mid-Nineteenth Century	p. 25
Sacred Trees and Haunted Forests in Indonesia - Particularly Java, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 48
Taming Nature - Controlling Fertility: Concepts of Nature and Gender among the Isan of Northeast Thailand	p. 63
Thinking through Nature in Highland Nepal	p. 88
State Intervention and Community Protest: Nature Conservation in Hunza, North Pakistan	p. 103
Nature in the Kalasha Perception of Life	p. 126
Nature as the Virgin Forest: Farmer's Perspective on Nature and Sustainability in Low-Resource Agriculture in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka	p. 148
Fengshui and the Chinese Perception of Nature	p. 173
The Japanese Attitude to Nature: A Framework of Basic Ontological Conceptions	p. 189
Japanese Advertising Nature: Ecology, Women, Fashion and Art	p. 215
Culture in Japanese Nature	p. 243
Nature, Religion and Cultural Identity: The Religious Environmentalist Paradigm	p. 258
List of Contributors	p. 277
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