Indigeneity and the Sacred

Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-396-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarmiento, Fausto

Hitchner, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Muñoz 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

Über Autor(innen)

Sarmiento, Fausto
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.

Hitchner, Sarah
Sarah Hitchner is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Integrative Conservation Research and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A. She is a cultural anthropologist specializing in sacred sites and cultural landscapes of Southeast Asia.

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.