African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change
In western scholarship, Africa's so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural relics from a static precolonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this relic theory is inadequate for understanding current social and ecological dynamics. African Sacred Groves challenges dominant views of these landscape features by redefining the subject matter beyond the compelling yet uninformative term sacred. This interdisciplinary book by an international group of scholars and conservation practitioners provides a methodological framework for un…
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Weitere Autoren: Nyamweru, Celia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8214-1788-1
- EAN: 9780821417881
- Produktnummer: 3145364
- Verlag: Ohio Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
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Michael Sheridan is an assistant professor of anthropology at Middlebury College. Celia Nyamweru teaches in the Department of Anthropology and the African Studies Program at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
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