Custodians of the Sacred Mountains
Title | Custodians of the Sacred Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas A. Reuter |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2002-01-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0824862104 |
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the world, the Bali Aga have long been overshadowed by the more exotic courtly culture of the south. A closer analysis of the changing position of the Bali Aga within Balinese society provides a key to understanding the politics and social process of cultural representation in Bali and beyond. The process is marked by a blend of representational competition and cooperation among the Bali Aga themselves, among the Bali Aga and southern Balinese, and later among the island's aristocratic elites and foreign colonizers or scholars, and state authorities. The study of this process raises important issues about the establishment and maintenance of status and power structures at regional, national, and global levels. Custodians of the Sacred Mountains explores the marginalization of the Bali Aga in light of a critical theory of cultural representation and calls for a morally engaged approach to ethnographic research. It proposes an intersubjective and communicative model of human interaction as the foundation for understanding the relative significance of cooperation and competition in the cultural production of knowledge.
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains
Title | Custodians of the Sacred Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Anton Reuter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Bali (Indonesia : Province) |
ISBN |
Precedence
Title | Precedence PDF eBook |
Author | Michael P. Vischer |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2009-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1921536470 |
This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers that comprise this volume examine the concept of precedence as a form of local discourse and as a mechanism for ordering status, at different levels, within specific Austronesian-speaking societies. This is the first volume of its kind to focus entirely on precedence and to provide an explication of its social uses and the way in which it is contested. Each paper is ethnographically-focused and offers its own distinctive approach to the examination of precedence. The papers, however, relate closely to one another and are thus able to proffer a variety of comparative reflections.
Sacred Natural Sites
Title | Sacred Natural Sites PDF eBook |
Author | Bas Verschuuren |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1136530746 |
Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.
Sacred Mountains
Title | Sacred Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Cooper |
Publisher | Rudolf Steiner Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Mountaineers |
ISBN | 9780863152351 |
In every sacred tradition, mountains are the dwelling-places of the gods and destinations of spiritual journeying.
Sustainable Resilient Built Environments
Title | Sustainable Resilient Built Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Rama Devi Nandineni |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 1135 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 981998811X |
Small Farmers for Global Food Security
Title | Small Farmers for Global Food Security PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Reuter |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2024-04-05 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1036403424 |
Food systems in Indonesia and worldwide have experienced major transformations in the wake of agricultural modernisation. Once intact eco-systems have declined dramatically, along with human diets, long term food security and social cohesion. Using long-term ethnographic research, we documented this loss of traditional food systems in Java, Bali, East Timor and India, but also a recent revival and reinvention of sustainable production methods and community-based distribution systems. A growing movement of small farmers now reject the dominant paradigm of aggressive capitalist development, and are re-creating food systems based on moral ecology – a new concept we introduce to characterise food systems that regenerate the natural environment and serve the common good, rather than maximise profit. Small farmers like these already feed two thirds of humanity using only a third of agricultural land. With proper support, we argue, they could feed the entire world, using sustainable and socially responsible approaches to eradicate world hunger.