Indigeneity and the Sacred

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

280 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie
• ISBN: 9781789204957
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2019
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Fausto Sarmiento, Sarah Hitchner