A new perspective on religions and the environment emerges from this collection. The authors, a diverse group of indigenous and non-native scholars and environmental activists, address compelling and urgent questions facing indigenous communities as they struggle with threats to their own sovereignty, increased market and media globalization, and the conservation of endangered bioregions.
Drawing attention to the pressures threatening indigenous peoples and ways of life, this volume describes modes of resistance and regeneration by which communities maintain a spiritual balance with larger cosmological forces while creatively accommodating current environmental, social, economic, and political changes.
Preface xi Lawrence E. Sullivan Series Foreword xv Mary Evelyn Tucker John A. Grim Introduction xxxiii John A. Grim Prologue lix Richard Nelson Maps of Indigenous Peoples lxv Fragmented Communities Intellectual Property Rights and the Sacred Balance: Some Spiritual Consequences from the Commercialization of Traditional Resources 3(22) Darrell Addison Posey Contextualizing the Environmental Struggle 25(22) Tom Greaves In the Eye of the Strom: Tribal Peoples of India 47(24) Pradip Prabhu Shoot the Horse to Get the Rider: Religion and Forest Politics in Bentian Borneo 71(32) Stephanie Fried Complex Cosmologies Nature and Culture: Problematic: Concepts for Native Americans 103(22) Jack D. Forbes Local Knowledges, Global Claims: On the Significance of Indigenous Ecologies in Sarawak, East Malaysia 125(34) J. Peter Brosius Is Indigenous Spiritual Ecology Just a New Fad? Reflections on the Historical and Spiritual Ecology of Hawaii 159(16) Leslie E. Sponsel The Road to Heaven: Jakaltek Maya Beliefs, Religion, and the Ecology 175(22) Victor D. Montejo Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua: A Maori Philosophy of Vitalism and Cosmos 197(28) Manuka Henare Embedded Worldviews The Sacred Egg: Worldview, Ecology, and Development in West Africa 225(24) Ogbu U. Kalu Melanesian Religion, Ecology, and Modernization in Papua New Guinea 249(32) Simeon B. Namunu Interface between Traditional Religion and Ecology among the Igorots 281(22) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Religion, Ritual, and Agriculture among the Present-Day Nahua of Mesoamerica 303(22) Javier Galicia Silva The Life and Bounty of the Mesoamerican Sacred Mountain 325(26) Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia Calabash Trees and Cacti in the Indegenous Ritual Selection of Environments for Settlement in Colonial Mesoamerica 351(26) Angel Julian Garcia Zambrano Warao Spiritual Ecology 377(34) Werner Wilbert Resistance and Regeneration Hunting, Nature, and Metaphor: Political and Discursive Strategies in James Bay Cree Resistance and Autonomy 411(42) Harvey A. Feit Sovereignty and Swaraj: Adivasi Encounters with Modernity and Majority 453(12) Smitu Kothari Respecting the Land: Religion, Reconciliation, and Romance--An Australian Story 465(20) Diane Bell Kumarangk: The Survival of a Battered People 485(10) Tom Trevorrow Ellen Trevorrow Contemporary Native American Responses to Environmental Threats in Indian Country 495(46) Tirso A. Gonzales Melissa K. Nelson Liberative Ecologies A Guest on the Table: Ecology from the Yupik Eskimo Point of View 541(18) Ann Fienup-Riordan Learning from Ecological Ethnicities: Toward a Plural Political Ecology of Knowledge 559(32) Pramod Parajuli Changing Habits, Changing Habitats: Melanesian Environmental Knowledge 591(28) Marry N. MacDonald Indigenous Education and Ecology: Perspectives of an American Indian Educator 619(20) Gregory Cajete Andean Cosmovision and the Nurturing of Biodiversity 639(32) Julio Valladolid Frederique Apffel-Marglin Select Bibliography 671(42) Notes on Contributors 713(8) Index 721
