{"product_id":"indigeneity-and-the-sacred-indigenous-revival-and-the-conservation-of-sacred-natural-sites-in-the-americas-9781789204957","title":"Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThis 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. \u003cem\u003eIndigeneity and the Sacred\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• William Balée\u003c\/strong\u003e, Tulane University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tDedication\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Figures, Tables, and Boxes\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePrologue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Whose Sacred Sites? Indigenous Political Use of Sacred Sites, Mythology, and Religion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRandall Borman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: GEOGRAPHIES OF INDIGENOUS REVIVAL AND CONSERVATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacred Natural Sites in a Conservation Management and Policy Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBas Verschuuren, Robert Wild, and Gerard Verschoor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Structural Changes in Latin American Spirituality: An Essay on the Geography of Religions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAxel Borsdorf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: FRAMING SACRED SITES IN INDIGENOUS MINDSCAPES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction to Part II:\u003c\/strong\u003e Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eEl Buen Vivir\u003c\/em\u003e and “The Good Life”: A South-North Binary Perspective on the Indigenous, the Sacred, and their Conservation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEsmeralda Guevara and Larry M. Frolich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacred Mountains: Sources of Indigenous Revival and Sustenance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEdwin Bernbaum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Frozen Mummies and the Archaeology of High Mountains in the Construction of Andean Identity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eConstanza Ceruti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Changing Images and Dimensions of Andean Indigenous Identities in Space and Time\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristoph Stadel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e National Park Service Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values to Protected Places\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid E. Ruppert and Charles W. Smythe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: CASE STUDIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction to Part III:\u003c\/strong\u003e Case Studies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Collaborative Archaeology as a Tool for Preserving Sacred Sites in the Cherokee Heartland\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBenjamin A. Steere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz and Geraldine Patrick Encina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Dimensions in the Territorial Conservation Management in Ecuador: A Brief Political View of Sacred Sites in Ecuador\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eXavier Viteri O.\u2028\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFernando Roca Alcazar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: CONCLUSION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Hitchner, Fausto Sarmiento, and John Schelhas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042556838231,"sku":"9781789204957","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789204957.jpg?v=1750954627","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indigeneity-and-the-sacred-indigenous-revival-and-the-conservation-of-sacred-natural-sites-in-the-americas-9781789204957","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}