Author: M. W. M. YeattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Madras
Author: M. W. M. YeattsSacred Groves and Local Gods
Author: Eliza F. KentPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199895473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In recent years, India's "sacred groves," small forests or stands of trees set aside for a deity's exclusive use, have attracted the attention of NGOs, botanists, specialists in traditional medicine, and anthropologists. Environmentalists disillusioned by the failures of massive state-sponsored solutions to ecological problems have hailed them as an exemplary form of traditional community resource management. For in spite of pressures to utilize their trees for fodder, housing, and firewood, the religious taboos surrounding sacred groves have led to the conservation of pockets of abundant flora in areas otherwise denuded by deforestation. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over seven years, Eliza F. Kent offers a compelling examination of the religious and social context in which sacred groves take on meaning for the villagers who maintain them, and shows how they have become objects of fascination and hope for Indian environmentalists. Sacred Groves and Local Gods traces a journey through Tamil Nadu, exploring how the localized meanings attached to forested shrines are changing under the impact of globalization and economic liberalization. Confounding simplistic representations of sacred groves as sites of a primitive form of nature worship, the book shows how local practices and beliefs regarding sacred groves are at once more imaginative, dynamic, and pragmatic than previously thought. Kent argues that rather than being ancient in origin, as has been asserted by other scholars, the religious beliefs, practices, and iconography found in sacred groves suggest origins in the politically de-centered eighteenth century, when the Tamil country was effectively ruled by local chieftains. She analyzes two projects undertaken by environmentalists that seek to harness the traditions surrounding sacred groves in the service of forest restoration and environmental education.
Imperial Gazetteer of India
Author: Census of India, 1961: India
Author: India. Office of the RegistrarPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Indian anthropology, compiled by J. M. Kanitkar
Author: National Library (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Commerce Reports
Author: Bibliographie générale sur les monts Nilgiri de l'Inde du sud 1603-1996
Author: Paul HockingsPublisher: Presses Univ de Bordeaux
ISBN: 9782906621275
Category : Nilgiri Hills (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the Year Ending ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
1876-1891 include reports on the internal commerce of the United States, referred to in letters of transmittal as "the volume on commerce and navigation."
Imperial Gazetteer of India
Author: James Sutherland CottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description