Title: Indigenous vision : peoples of India, attitudes to the environment
Abstract: Editorial - B K Roy Burman Homage to Earth PART ONE: PERSPECTIVE Gaia is the Source of All Benefits - Edward Goldsmith Tradition and Change - Marta Vannucci The Earth as Sacred Environs - Krishna Chaitanya Only One Earth - Maurice F Strong Adivasis of Gujarat - Haku Shah A Photo Essay PART TWO: MYTH Invocation - Sitakant Mahapatra Rites of Propitiation in Tribal Societies The Munda Epic - K S Singh An Interpretation Garo Myths - Suneet Chopra The Environment as Lexicon Oraons - Virginius Xaxa Religion, Customs and Environment PART THREE: IMAGINATION Art and the Adivasi - J Swaminathan Maati - Haku Shah and Geeti Sen Born from the Earth The Churning of the Ocean of Milk-Myth Image and Ecology - Joanna Williams Ecology and Indian Myth - Kapila Vatsyayan PART FOUR: ECO-BALANCE Sacred Groves - Madhav Gadgil and M D Subash Chandran The Sustainable Lifestyle of the Warlis - Winin Pereira Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation - Vandana Shiva Jhum - P S Ramakrishnan and Suprava Pathaik Slash and Burn Cultivation Traditional Systems of Water Harvesting and Agroforestry - Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain PART FIVE: CHANGING REALITIES The Indigenous Culture of Zanskar - Sandhya Chatterji Myth, Fable and Guile - Dunu Roy The Art of Survival in Shahdol We Will Always be Gujar - David H Turner The Politics of Nomadism in Northern Himachal Pradesh A House is Not a Home - Ramesh Kumar Biswas PART SIX: INTERVIEW Interview with The Strength of a People's Movement - Medha Patkar
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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