Indigenous Traditions and Ecology : The

The authors, a diverse group of indigenous and non-native scholars and environmental activists, address urgent questions facing indigenous communities as they struggle with threats to their own sovereignty, increased market and media globalization, and the conservation of endangered bioregions.

Preface

xi

Lawrence E. Sullivan

Series Foreword

xv

Mary Evelyn Tucker

John A. Grim

Introduction

xxxiii

John A. Grim

Prologue

lix

Richard Nelson

Maps of Indigenous Peoples

lxv

Fragmented Communities

Intellectual Property Rights and the Sacred Balance: Some Spiritual Consequences from the Commercialization of Traditional Resources

3

(22)

Darrell Addison Posey

Contextualizing the Environmental Struggle

25

(22)

Tom Greaves

In the Eye of the Strom: Tribal Peoples of India

47

(24)

Pradip Prabhu

Shoot the Horse to Get the Rider: Religion and Forest Politics in Bentian Borneo

71

(32)

Stephanie Fried

Complex Cosmologies

Nature and Culture: Problematic: Concepts for Native Americans

103

(22)

Jack D. Forbes

Local Knowledges, Global Claims: On the Significance of Indigenous Ecologies in Sarawak, East Malaysia

125

(34)

J. Peter Brosius

Is Indigenous Spiritual Ecology Just a New Fad? Reflections on the Historical and Spiritual Ecology of Hawai'i

159

(16)

Leslie E. Sponsel

The Road to Heaven: Jakaltek Maya Beliefs, Religion, and the Ecology

175

(22)

Victor D. Montejo

Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua: A Maori Philosophy of Vitalism and Cosmos

197

(28)

Manuka Henare

Embedded Worldviews

The Sacred Egg: Worldview, Ecology, and Development in West Africa

225

(24)

Ogbu U. Kalu

Melanesian Religion, Ecology, and Modernization in Papua New Guinea

249

(32)

Simeon B. Namunu

Interface between Traditional Religion and Ecology among the Igorots

281

(22)

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Religion, Ritual, and Agriculture among the Present-Day Nahua of Mesoamerica

303

(22)

Javier Galicia Silva

The Life and Bounty of the Mesoamerican Sacred Mountain

325

(26)

Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia

Calabash Trees and Cacti in the Indegenous Ritual Selection of Environments for Settlement in Colonial Mesoamerica

351

(26)

Angel Julian Garcia Zambrano

Warao Spiritual Ecology

377

(34)

Werner Wilbert

Resistance and Regeneration

Hunting, Nature, and Metaphor: Political and Discursive Strategies in James Bay Cree Resistance and Autonomy

411

(42)

Harvey A. Feit

Sovereignty and Swaraj: Adivasi Encounters with Modernity and Majority

453

(12)

Smitu Kothari

Respecting the Land: Religion, Reconciliation, and Romance--An Australian Story

465

(20)

Diane Bell

Kumarangk: The Survival of a Battered People

485

(10)

Tom Trevorrow

Ellen Trevorrow

Contemporary Native American Responses to Environmental Threats in Indian Country

495

(46)

Tirso A. Gonzales

Melissa K. Nelson

Liberative Ecologies

A Guest on the Table: Ecology from the Yup'ik Eskimo Point of View

541

(18)

Ann Fienup-Riordan

Learning from Ecological Ethnicities: Toward a Plural Political Ecology of Knowledge

559

(32)

Pramod Parajuli

Changing Habits, Changing Habitats: Melanesian Environmental Knowledge

591

(28)

Marry N. MacDonald

Indigenous Education and Ecology: Perspectives of an American Indian Educator

619

(20)

Gregory Cajete

Andean Cosmovision and the Nurturing of Biodiversity

639

(32)

Julio Valladolid

Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Select Bibliography

671

(42)

Notes on Contributors

713

(8)

Index

721

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Indigenous Traditions and Ecology : The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community

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