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Indigenous vision: people of India attitudes to the environment/ edited by Geeti Sen - New Delhi: Sage, 1992. - 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Editorial - B K Roy Burman Homage to Earth

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVE
Gaia is the Source of All Benefits - Edward GoldsmithTradition and Change - Marta Vannucci
The Earth as Sacred Environs - Krishna Chaitanya
Only One Earth - Maurice F Strong
Adivasis of Gujarat - Haku Shah A Photo Essay
PART TWO: MYTH
Invocation - Sitakant Mahapatra
Rites of Propitiation in Tribal Societies
The Munda Epic - K S Singh
An Interpretation
Garo Myths - Suneet Chopra
The Environment as Lexicon Oraons - Virginius Xaxa
Religion, Customs and Environment
PART THREE: IMAGINATION
Art and the Adivasi - J SwaminathanMaati - Haku Shah and Geeti Sen Born from the EarthThe Churning of the Ocean of Milk-Myth Image and Ecology - Joanna Williams
Ecology and Indian Myth - Kapila Vatsyayan
PART FOUR: ECO-BALANCE
Sacred Groves - Madhav Gadgil and M D Subash Chandran
The Sustainable Lifestyle of the Warlis - Winin Pereira
Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation - Vandana Shiva
Jhum - P S Ramakrishnan and Suprava Pathaik Slash and Burn CultivationTraditional Systems of Water Harvesting and Agroforestry - Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain
PART FIVE: CHANGING REALITIES
The Indigenous Culture of Zanskar - Sandhya Chatterji
Myth, Fable and Guile - Dunu Roy The Art of Survival in Shahdol
We Will Always be Gujar - David H Turner The Politics of Nomadism in Northern Himachal Pradesh
A House is Not a Home - Ramesh Kumar Biswas
PART SIX: INTERVIEW
Interview withThe Strength of a People's Movement - Medha Patkar

ISBN: 817036308X 9788170363088

Subjects--Topical Terms:
India
Environmental policy
Environmental protection

Dewey Class. No.: 301 / SEN/I