The tremendous cultural diversity and distinct ways of life of many Southeast and East Asian peoples are in serious jeopardy today because of varying combinations of economic, political, and environmental threats, often linked to severe human rights violations. Endangered Peoples of Southeast and East Asia introduces 14 endangered cultures, from the Kubu of Central Sumatra in Indonesia, to the Ainu of Japan. The most pressing issues of these marginalized groups―such as the impact of tourism, prohibition against whaling, or dislocation due to nuclear testing―are brought to light by anthropologists based on their own extensive field work. The cultural and historical information provided here is not available in any other printed source.
Endangered peoples of Southeast and East Asia struggle with inadequate understanding, protection, and enforcement of human rights by state governments and the international community. The volume introduction discusses the diversity, identity, ecology, spirituality, colonial status, conflicts and wars, and finally, hope for the future of people in this region. Subsequent chapters are devoted to fourteen specific cultures, including an overview of their history, housing, subsistence strategies, social and political organization, religion and world view, threats to their survival, and their response to these threats. A section entitled Food for Thought poses questions that encourage a personal engagement with the experience of these peoples, and a resource guide suggests further reading and lists pertinent organizations and web sites. As the curriculum expands to include Asian history, this unique volume will be valuable to students and teachers alike.

Endangered Peoples of Southeast and East Asia: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (The Greenwood Press Endangered Peoples of the World Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sponsel, Leslie E.

Social Sciences

Greenwood

Award winner in Science category at the annual Green Book Festival in San Francisco, May 17, 2014 An internet search for "Spiritual Ecology" and related terms like "Religion and Nature" and "Religion and Ecology" reveals tens of millions of websites. Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution offers an intellectual history of this far-reaching movement. Arranged chronologically, it samples major developments in the thoughts and actions of both historic and contemporary pioneers, ranging from the Buddha and St. Francis of Assisi to Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement and James Cameron's 2010 epic film Avatar.
This foundational book is unique in that it provides a historical, cross-cultural context for understanding and advancing the ongoing spiritual ecology revolution, considering indigenous and Asian religious traditions as well as Western ones. Most chapters focus on a single pioneer, illuminating historical context and his/her legacy, while also connecting that legacy to broader concerns. Coverage includes topics as diverse as Henry David Thoreau and the Green Patriarch BartholomeW's decades-long promotion of environmentalism as a sacred duty for more than 250 million members of the Orthodox Church worldwide. For more information, visit www.spiritualecology.info.

Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution

Praeger

"This very timely collection of 13 papers examines several key issues focused on native peoples and environment in Amazonian. . . . The authors are highly qualified. . . . Essential reading." —American Anthropologist "A most welcome addition to our emergent understanding of the political ecology of lowland South America. . . . This work includes some of the best current research on the human ecology of Amazonia." —Cultural Survival Quarterly

Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology)

University of Arizona Press

The open challenge to the widespread acceptance of lethality and lethal intent trespasses the limits of an ideology for social change entailing a new scientific model based on the refutation of killing-accepting science. This volume brings together 24 authors and 14 disciplines (Anthropology, Arts, Biology, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology) to seriously consider the prospects for the realization of nonkilling societies and to challenge each discipline’s role in the necessary social and scientific transformation.

Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm

Brauer, Jurgen

Evans Pim, Joám

Younger, Stephen M.

Urbain, Olivier

Tyner, James

Giorgi, Piero P.

Marlin, Tepper

Haws, David

DeGue, Sarah

Center for Global Nonkilling

Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions (Nonkilling Studies)

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe

Cicovacki, Predrag

Allen, Douglas

Dhakal., Pradeep

Te Maiharoa, Kelli

Tanabe, Juichiro

Bothra, Shivani

Philosophy

The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence

Lynne Rienner Pub

L'écologie spirituelle

HOZHONI

Yanomami in the Amazon: Toward a more Ethical Anthropology beyond Othering

Independently published

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