ABSTRACT
This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
Images of Nature
An Introduction to the Study of Man–Environment Relations in Asia
chapter 2|22 pages
Socio-Political Structures and the Southeast Asian Ecosystem
An Historical Perspective up to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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chapter 3|16 pages
Sacred Trees and Haunted Forests in Indonesia
Particularly Java, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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chapter 4|25 pages
Taming Nature – Controlling Fertility
Concepts of Nature and Gender among the Isan of Northeast Thailand
chapter 6|23 pages
State Intervention and Community Protest
Nature Conservation in Hunza, North Pakistan
chapter 8|25 pages
Nature as the Virgin Forest
Farmers' Perspectives on Nature and Sustainability in Low-Resource Agriculture in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
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