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  • River Dialogues

    Hindu Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga

    by Georgina Drew ...
    Series series Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives
    India’s sacred Ganga River is arguably one of the most iconic sites for worship, with a continuity of rituals for the living and the dead that span over two millennia. Along the river, from high in the Himalaya to the vast plains below, people gather daily to worship the Ganga through prayer and song. But large government-sponsored dams threaten to upend these practices.In River Dialogues, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds

    by Cecilie Rubow, Guillermo Salas Carreño, C. Mathews Samson, Amanda Bertana, Georgina Drew, Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Karine Gagné, Mabel Gergan, Willis Jenkins, Karsten Paerregaard ...
    How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change?Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld,edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Water Powers

    Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific

    by Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Sonja Åman, Barbara R. Ambros, Darmanto Darmanto, Susan M. Darlington0, Georgina Drew1, Kathryn Dyt2, Fynn Holm3, Andrew Alan Johnson4, Tuan Anh Nguyen5, Evan Nicoll-Johnson6, Dr. Marius Palz7, Gerard Persoon8, Victoria C. Ramenzoni9, Veronica Walker Vadillo0 ...
    Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals—from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales—and environmental change. Contributors examine the past and present significance of these creatures in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia, and Aotearoa-New Zealand to explore ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • In the Realm of the Diamond Queen

    Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic

    Anthropocenic Climate and Shapeshifting Watery Lifeworlds

    Edited by Dan Smyer Yü, Jelle J.P. Wouters ...
    This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world’s altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic.Innovation-driven, the book offers ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Sacred Forests of Asia

    Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation

    Edited by Chris Coggins, Bixia Chen ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Culture and Communication in Thailand

    by Patchanee Malikhao ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book features research papers that examine a host of contemporary issues in Thailand. Coverage includes culture, gender violence, tourism, human trafficking, environmental and ecological issues, sustainability and the sufficiency economy, the (mis)handling of elephants, and more. It features a sociological and anthropological perspective with a dash of communication for sustainable social ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Northeast India

    Edited by Jelle J. P. Wouters, Tanka B. Subba ...
    The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Sacred Natural Sites

    Conserving Nature and Culture

    Edited by Bas Verschuuren, Gonzalo Oviedo, Robert Wild, Jeffrey McNeely ...
    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 ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Water Politics and Spiritual Ecology

    Custom, environmental governance and development

    by Lisa Palmer ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance. In many areas water is not only a vital resource but is also endowed with an agency and power that connects people, spirit beings, place and space.The culmination of a decade of ethnographic research in Timor ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    by Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

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  • Angkor and the Khmer Civilization

    by Michael D. Coe, Damian Evans ...
    An authoritative survey of Angkor and the Khmer civilization which incorporates revelations from new discoveries in the past decade that are rewriting history.The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars and visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century. All are wonderstruck by the beauty and multiplicity of the sculptures that adorn its temples and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD