| Description |
276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Studies in Asian topics ; no. 18 |
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Studies on Asian topics ; no. 18
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| Contents |
Images of Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Man-Environment Relations in Asia / Ole Bruun and Arne Kalland -- Socio-Political Structures and the Southeast Asian Ecosystem: An Historical Perspective up to the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Jeya Kathirithamby-Wells -- Sacred Trees and Haunted Forests in Indonesia - Particularly Java, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Peter Boomgaard -- Taming Nature - Controlling Fertility: Concepts of Nature and Gender among the Isan of Northeast Thailand / Stephen Sparkes -- Thinking through Nature in Highland Nepal / Graham E. Clarke -- State Intervention and Community Protest: Nature Conservation in Hunza, North Pakistan / Are Knudsen -- Nature in the Kalasha Perception of Life / Birgitte Glavind Sperber -- Nature as the Virgin Forest: Farmer's Perspective on Nature and Sustainability in Low-Resource Agriculture in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka / Klas Sandell -- Fengshui and the Chinese Perception of Nature / Ole Bruun |
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The Japanese Attitude to Nature: A Framework of Basic Ontological Conceptions / S. M. Eisenstadt -- Japanese Advertising Nature: Ecology, Women, Fashion and Art / Brian Moeran and Lise Skov -- Culture in Japanese Nature / Arne Kalland -- Nature, Religion and Cultural Identity: The Religious Environmentalist Paradigm / Poul Pedersen |
| Analysis |
Asia |
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Environment Perception By Humans |
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Asia |
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Environment Perception By Humans |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Environmental policy -- Asia.
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Nature conservation -- Asia.
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Nature worship -- Asia.
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Philosophy of nature.
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| Author |
Bruun, Ole, 1953-
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Kalland, Arne.
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Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
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| LC no. |
96106413 |
| ISBN |
0700702903 (paperback) |
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0700703012 |
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