Forests Of Belonging

Author : Stephanie Karin Rupp
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803029

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Forests of Belonging by Stephanie Karin Rupp Pdf

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam--in the Lobéké forest region of southeastern Cameroon. By slotting forest communities into ecological categories such as "hunters" and "gatherers," previous analyses of social relationships in tropical forests have resulted in binary frameworks that render real-life relationships invisible and that have perpetuated correspondingly misleading labels, such as "pygmy." Through rich descriptive detail resulting from field work among the Bangando, Stephanie Rupp illustrates the complexity of social ties among groups and individuals, and their connections with the natural world. She demonstrates that social and ethno-ecological relations in equatorial African forests are nuanced, contested, and shifting, and that the intricacy of these links must be considered in the design and implementation of aid policies and strategies for conservation and development.

Author : B. G. Karlsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136827532

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Contested Belonging by B. G. Karlsson Pdf

Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea gardens and reserved forests, Rabhas were forced to become labourers under the forest department. Today, large-scale illegal deforestation and the global interest in wildlife conservation once again jeopardize their survival. Karlsson describes the development of the Rabha people, their ways of coping with the colonial regime of scientific forestry and the depletion of the forest, as well as with present day concerns for wilderness and wildlife restoration and preservation. Central points relate to the construction of identity as a form of subaltern resistance, the Rabha;s ongoing conversion to Christianity and their ethnic mobilisation, and the agency involved in the construction of cultural or ethnic identities.

Author : Are J. Knudsen
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788776940454

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Violence and Belonging by Are J. Knudsen Pdf

Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954.

Author : Jessica J. Lee
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781646220007

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Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee Pdf

This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.

Author : Michael Kearney, MD
Publisher : Easton Studio Press LLC
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632261052

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Becoming Forest: A Story of Deep Belonging by Michael Kearney, MD Pdf

Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment. At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep security” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and the uncertain future ahead. Aishling goes to India to follow in her grandfather’s path to find a way of responding to his request. There she meets and falls in love with a young Buddhist monk, who is also on a quest. As they walk together along the roads of India, they gather unexpected and invaluable insights from each other and come closer to the answers they both seek. Thirty years later, Aishling’s daughter Tara is visiting her in Ireland. Tara is grieving the death of her father and also the destruction of the forests from drought and fire. She is also searching for a way to heal the burnout she and her friends are experiencing while working to combat climate change. Becoming Forest weaves together threads of Native American and Celtic spirituality with Buddhist understanding and connection to the natural world, creating a tapestry which holds both the despair and awakening of Aishling

Author : Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250801630

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The Belonging Tree by Maryann Cocca-Leffler Pdf

The Belonging Tree is a thoughtful picture book about respect, inclusion, and acceptance in a woodland community of animals from writer Maryann Cocca-Leffler and illustrator Kristine A. Lombardi. Life was ordinary in the big oak tree on Forest Lane. Squirrels lived in every part of the tree, and the Gray squirrel family inhabited the knot in the middle. But the neighborhood starts to change as the big oak tree welcomes families of chipmunks, beavers, and birds. And with each new arrival, the Grays become increasingly unhappy. Can’t everything remain just as it was? It will take an unexpected moment of heroism from a thoughtful inhabitant to finally open hearts and bind together this diverse animal community. Christy Ottaviano Books

Author : Charles Sprague Sargent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Botany
ISBN : CHI:096069296

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Garden and Forest by Charles Sprague Sargent Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89012021853

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Forest Leaves by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Croumbie Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Forest fauna
ISBN : NYPL:33433006569200

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Forests and Forestry of Northern Russia and Lands Beyond by John Croumbie Brown Pdf

Author : Francis George Heath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015007526539

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Forestry by Francis George Heath Pdf

Author : Nora Krug
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781476796635

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Belonging by Nora Krug Pdf

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org).

Author : John Croumbie Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Forestry schools and education
ISBN : UCAL:$B806133

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Works on Forestry: Forestry of the Ural mountains by John Croumbie Brown Pdf

Author : Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813576916

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Of Forests and Fields by Mario Jimenez Sifuentez Pdf

2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them. He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union, which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews, offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the links between the personal and political, as his research leads him to amazing discoveries about his own family history... www.mariosifuentez.com

Author : Minnesota. Forestry Commissioner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015058616676

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Forest Preservation by Minnesota. Forestry Commissioner Pdf

Author : Glory M. Lueong
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333811

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The Forest People without a Forest by Glory M. Lueong Pdf

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention. This book examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. Often referred to as ‘forest people’, the Baka have witnessed many recent development interventions that include competing and contradictory policies such as ‘civilize’, assimilate and integrate the Baka into ‘full citizenship’, conserve the forest and wildlife resources, and preserve indigenous cultures at the verge of extinction.