UID:
edocfu_9959238434302883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-756061-X
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1-280-52747-1
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0-19-535818-X
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1-4294-1548-7
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
In Ecologies of the Heart, Anderson reveals how religion and other folk beliefs helped pre-industrial peoples control and protect their resources. He also presents a coherent view of long-term, sustainable policies for the environment.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1996.
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Contents; 1. Landscape with Figures; 2. Feng-shui: Ideology and Ecology; 3. Chinese Nutritional Therapy; 4. Learning from the Land Otter: Religious Representation of Traditional Resource Management; 5. Managing the Rainforest: Maya Agriculture in the Town of the Wild Plums; 6. Needs and Human Nature; 7. Information Processing: Rational and Irrational Transcended; 8. Culture: Ecology in a Wider Context; 9. In and Out of Institutions; 10. The Disenchanted: Religion as Ecological Control, and Its Modern Fate; 11. A Summary, and Some Suggestions; Notes; References; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-509010-1
Language:
English
