Author: Claudia J. EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780747230601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Taming the Forest King
Author: Claudia J. EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780747230601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Kings of the Forest
Author: Jana FortierPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824833228
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In today’s world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of western Nepal: the Raute. Kings of the Forest explores how this elusive ethnic group, the last hunter-gatherers of the Himalayas, maintains its traditional way of life amidst increasing pressure to assimilate. Author Jana Fortier examines Raute social strategies of survival as they roam the lower Himalayas gathering wild yams and hunting monkeys. Hunting is part of a symbiotic relationship with local Hindu farmers, who find their livelihoods threatened by the monkeys’ raids on their crops. Raute hunting helps the Hindus, who consider the monkeys sacred and are reluctant to kill the animals themselves. Fortier explores Raute beliefs about living in the forest and the central importance of foraging in their lives. She discusses Raute identity formation, nomadism, trade relations, and religious beliefs, all of which turn on the foragers’ belief in the moral goodness of their unique way of life. The book concludes with a review of issues that have long been important to anthropologists—among them, biocultural diversity and the shift from an evolutionary focus on the ideal hunter-gatherer to an interest in hunter-gatherer diversity. Kings of the Forest will be welcomed by readers of anthropology, Asian studies, environmental studies, ecology, cultural geography, and ethnic studies. It will also be eagerly read by those who recognize the critical importance of preserving and understanding the connections between biological and cultural diversity.
Science Comics: Trees
Author: Andy HirschPublisher: First Second Books
ISBN: 1250143101
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Follow the adventures of an acorn as he learns all about trees.
The Forests of England and the Management of Them in Bye-gone Times
Author: John Croumbie BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Edward I
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probate records
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Edward III
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probate records
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Edward I
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inquisitiones post mortem
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Douments Preserved in the Public Record Office
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward III
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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