Title: Conclusions: the journey to biocultural conservation
Abstract:Early societies were small and close to nature. They were also intensely vulnerable and over the generations traditional ways of life evolved and enabled them to live in harmony within their customary...Early societies were small and close to nature. They were also intensely vulnerable and over the generations traditional ways of life evolved and enabled them to live in harmony within their customary habitat. Man also turned to religion to explain the features he could not understand and against which he sought protection, especially nature in its most dangerous and threatening forms such as storms, floods and earthquakes. Yet many societies also felt the need to thank nature for its bounties. Intervention with nature frequently involved a superior power and established rites which allowed communication with deities and the universe; shamanistic rituals suggested since millennia in prehistoric art may have been one of the earliest manifestations of such beliefs.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-07-19
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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