Religions of the World and Ecology Series
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology Volume
John Grim, ed.
Table of Contents
| Preface | Lawrence E. Sullivan |
| Series Foreword | Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim |
| Introduction | John A. Grim |
| Prologue | Richard Nelson |
| Chapter 1 | Fragmented Communities “Intellectual Property Rights and the Sacred Balance: Some Spiritual Consequences from the Commercialization of Traditional Resources” Darrell Addison Posey “Contextualizing the Environmental Struggle” “In the Eye of the Storm: Tribal Peoples of India” “Shoot the Horse to Get the Rider: Religion and Forest Politics in Bentian Borneo” |
| Chapter 2 | Complex Cosmologies “Nature and Culture: Problematic Concepts for Native Americans” Jack D. Forbes “Local Knowledges, Global Claims: On the Significance of Indigenous Ecologies in Sarawak, East Malaysia” “Is Indigenous Spiritual Ecology Just a New Fad? Reflections on the Historical and Spiritual Ecology of Hawai’i” “The Road to Heaven: Jakaltek Maya Beliefs, Religion, and the Ecology” “Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua: A Mäori Philosophy of Vitalism and Cosmos” |
| Chapter 3 | Embedded Worldviews “The Sacred Egg: Worldview, Ecology, and Development in West Africa” Ogbu U. Kalu “Melanesian Religion, Ecology, and Modernization in Papua New Guinea” “Interface between Traditional Religion and Ecology among the Igorots” “Religion, Ritual, and Agriculture among the Present-Day Nahua of Mesoamerica” “The Life and Bounty of the Mesoamerican Sacred Mountain” “Calabash Trees and Cacti in the Indigenous Ritual Selection of Environments for Settlement in Colonial Mesoamerica” “Warao Spiritual Ecology” |
| Chapter 4 | Resistance and Regeneration “Hunting, Nature, and Metaphor: Political and Discursive Strategies in James Bay Cree Resistance and Autonomy” Harvey A. Feit “Sovereignty, Swaraj, and Secession: Adivasi Encounters with Modernity and Majority” “Respecting the Land: Religion, Reconciliation, and Romance—An Australian Story” “Kumarangk: The Survival of a Battered People” “Contemporary Native American Responses to Environmental Threats in Indian Country” |
| Chapter 5 | Liberative Ecologies “A Guest on the Table: Ecology from the Yup’ik Eskimo Point of View” Ann Fienup-Riordan “Learning from Ecological Ethnicities: Toward a Plural Political Ecology of Knowledge” “Changing Habits, Changing Habitats: Melanesian Environmental Knowledge” “Indigenous Education and Ecology: Perspectives of an American Indian Educator” “Andean Cosmovision and the Nurturing of Biodiversity” |
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Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index |
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