Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
ISBN-10
1785333976
ISBN-13
9781785333972
Category
Social Science
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2017-06-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Fausto Sarmiento, Sarah Hitchner

Description

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

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