Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

Author:   Fausto Sarmiento ,  Sarah Hitchner
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   22
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9781785333965


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas


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This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

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Author:   Fausto Sarmiento ,  Sarah Hitchner
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   22
ISBN:  

9781785333965


ISBN 10:   1785333968
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Dedication List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes Acknowledgements Prologue: Whose Sacred Sites? Indigenous Political Use of Sacred Sites, Mythology, and Religion Randall Borman PART I: GEOGRAPHIES OF INDIGENOUS REVIVAL AND CONSERVATION Introduction Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner Chapter 1. Sacred Natural Sites in a Conservation Management and Policy Perspective Bas Verschuuren, Robert Wild, and Gerard Verschoor Chapter 2. Structural Changes in Latin American Spirituality: An Essay on the Geography of Religions Axel Borsdorf PART II: FRAMING SACRED SITES IN INDIGENOUS MINDSCAPES Introduction to Part II: Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner Chapter 3. El Buen Vivir and The Good Life : A South-North Binary Perspective on the Indigenous, the Sacred, and their Conservation Esmeralda Guevara and Larry M. Frolich Chapter 4. Sacred Mountains: Sources of Indigenous Revival and Sustenance Edwin Bernbaum Chapter 5. Frozen Mummies and the Archaeology of High Mountains in the Construction of Andean Identity Constanza Ceruti Chapter 6. Changing Images and Dimensions of Andean Indigenous Identities in Space and Time Christoph Stadel Chapter 7. National Park Service Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values to Protected Places David E. Ruppert and Charles W. Smythe PART III: CASE STUDIES Introduction to Part III: Case Studies Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner Chapter 8. Collaborative Archaeology as a Tool for Preserving Sacred Sites in the Cherokee Heartland Benjamin A. Steere Chapter 9. Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Munoz and Geraldine Patrick Encina Chapter 10. New Dimensions in the Territorial Conservation Management in Ecuador: A Brief Political View of Sacred Sites in Ecuador Xavier Viteri O. Chapter 11. Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon Fernando Roca Alcazar PART IV: CONCLUSION Conclusion Sarah Hitchner, Fausto Sarmiento, and John Schelhas Bibliography Index

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The effect of the whole [volume] is to emphasize the importance of saving sites locally sacred to Indigenous or majority peoples, and to take full account of how they are regarded and how they must be reverently and civilly managed to keep from offending...Highly recommended. * Choice This volume has multidisciplinary implications, and includes geographers, cultural anthropologists, and archaeologists, as well as the leader of an indigenous group as authors. This book will be an excellent complement to other existing texts in the field of ecological anthropology. * William Balee, Tulane University


This volume has multidisciplinary implications, and includes geographers, cultural anthropologists, and archaeologists, as well as the leader of an indigenous group as authors. This book will be an excellent complement to other existing texts in the field of ecological anthropology. * William Balee, Tulane University


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Fausto Sarmiento, is a Professor of Geography and Director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., where as a mountain geographer and expert on Andean ethnoecology, he develops transdisciplinary approaches to critical biogeography and political ecology to achieve sustainable biocultural heritage conservation.

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