Nature Across Cultures by HelaineSelin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS INTRODUCTION 1 Environmentalism and Images of the Other

THE NOBLE OTHER EMBRACING THE RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTALIST PARADIGM HUMANIZING THE OTHER NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

2 The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Re-Thinking the Western/Non-Western Divide

HEROES AND VILLAINS IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS WESTERN DISCOURSES OF RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION HYBRID SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

3 Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures

DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH KNOWLEDGE IS CULTURALLY EMBEDDED CLASSIFICATORY KNOWLEDGE HOW ETHNOBIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES AND KNOWLEDGE VARY, CHANGE AND EVOLVE KNOWLEDGE OF INDIVIDUAL ORGANISMS AND GROUPS OF ORGANISMS KNOWLEDGE OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PLANT AND ANIMAL BIOLOGY CHARACTERISING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE, FOLK KNOWLEDGE, AND SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE THE REDISCOVERY OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND THE INVENTION OF “INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE” NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

4 Local Understandings of the Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge

IK AND DEVELOPMENT LITERATURE: SOME CRITIQUES QUESTIONS OF IDEOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICS, POLICY AND PRACTICE NOTE BIBLIOGRAPHY

5 Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations

ROLE OF HUMANS IN NATURE HUMAN ADAPTATION: A DEVELOPMENT CYCLE MODEL CASES OF ADAPTATION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

6 Worldviews and Ecology: The Interaction of Cosmology and Cultivation

NATURE AS METAPHOR AND MATRIX DEFINING COSMOLOGY AND CULTIVATION COSMOLOGY AND CULTIVATION IN THE WORLD’S SCRIPTURES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

7 The Spirit(S) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand

SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY BUDDHISM AND SPIRIT BELIEFS BUDDHISM AND FOREST DEVELOPMENT SPIRITUALITY AND CONSERVATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY

8 Indian Perspectives on Naturalism

NATURALISM IN THE VEDAS AND UPANIṢADS FROM THE VEDIC (ĀSTIKA) TO THE NON-VEDIC AND ANTI-VEDIC (NASTIKA) SCHOOLS NATURALIST ELEMENTS IN BUDDHISM THE SĀṀKHYA VIEW OF NATURALISM VAIŚEṢIKA NATURALISM NATURALISM IN VEDANTIC THOUGHT BIBLIOGRAPHY

9 Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment

ETYMOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION ANCIENT VIEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD BUDDHISM AND THE NATURAL WORLD NEO-CONFUCIANISM AND EARLY MODERN VIEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD MODERN VIEWS OF NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY ADDITIONAL READING

10 Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Sense of Place

EARLY RECEPTION COSMOLOGIES OF QI WUXING: THE FIVE PROCESSES EARTH AND SYMBOLIC BODY BRIEF HISTORY OF FENGSHUI RELEVANT ARTS, FINE AND MARTIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

11 The Perception of Nature and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa

THE COGNITIVE SYSTEMS LANDSCAPES, SOILS AND CLIMATE PLANTS AND FUNGI ANIMALS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

12 Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land

TRADITIONAL ABORIGINAL USE OF FIRE FIRE AND CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES ABORIGINAL CONSERVATION MECHANISMS “LOOKING AFTER COUNTRY” NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

13 Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania

NATURE AND CULTURE: DIVERSITY IN A MARITIME CONTINENT WHOSE NATURES, WHOSE KNOWLEDGES? IN THE SEA OF ISLANDS BOTH SIDES OF THE BEACH KNOWING NATURE: SCIENCES OF PACIFIC ISLANDS PEOPLES SACRED ENVIRONMENTS: SPIRITS, SONGS AND STONES PARADISE CONTESTED NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

14 Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia

THE RECOGNITION OF DIVERSITY LIMITS ON SYSTEMS OF CLASSIFICATION NATIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT DIVERSIFICATION OF LANDSCAPES HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

15 Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment

LOCAL METEOROLOGICAL PREDICTORS CLIMATIC VARIATIONS: METEOROLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS METEOROLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK IMPACT MANAGEMENT WEATHER PREDICTION NUTRITIONAL ISSUES AND GEOPHAGY BIBLIOGRAPHY

16 Nature Doesn’t Come as Clean as We Can Think It”: Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North

THEIR LAND, WATERS, COAST, SEA, ICE AND SKY CATEGORIES OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT THEORY DENE VIEWS OF NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT INUIT VIEWS OF NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT INUIT AND DENE KNOWLEDGE IN WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE INDIGENOUS AND SCIENTIFIC CATEGORIES ATTEMPTS TO INTEGRATE THE PROBLEM OF THE SACRED WHAT LIES AHEAD NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

17 We are the Land: Native American Views of Nature

CAVEATS THE NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

18 Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment

BUDDHA DHAMMA SANGHA LAITY WEST PROBLEMS FUTURE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

19 Confucian Views of Nature

THE SIX ERAS OF CONFUCIAN HISTORY THE CLASSICAL AGE THE HAN SYNTHESIS FROM THE FALL OF THE HAN TO THE GLORIES OF THE TANG THE SONG CONFUCIAN REVIVAL LATE IMPERIAL CHINA AND EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENTS MODERN TIMES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

20 Daoism and Nature

DEFINITIONS, ORIGINS, CONTEXTS THE PRACTICE OF CORRELATIVITY THE SKY THE EARTH THE BODY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

21 Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment

HINDU SCRIPTURES AND THE ENVIRONMENT HINDU PHILOSOPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT HINDU SPIRITUALITY IN ACTION CONTRASTS WITH WESTERN ECOTHEOLOGY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

22 Nature and Culture: An Islamic Perspective

NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

23 Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices

ISSUES OF DEFINITION BIBLICAL CONCEPTS OF WATER RESOURCES CLIMATE, HARVESTS, AND HOLY DAYS GRAZING AND RANGE LANDS JEWISH DIETARY LAWS HERITAGE RESOURCES AND THEIR PRESERVATION FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

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