Life-style and Ecology-Baidyanath Saraswati-DKPD-9788124601037
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| As one of its
significant programmes, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
(IGNCA) has, for sometime, focussed on the lifestyle studies addressing the
fundamental questions concerning Man’s relationship with Cosmic Order, his
perceptions of Space and Time through the ages and across cultures, and his
experience of Nature and how far he has evolved a symbiotic ‘existential
connection’ with it. The IGNCA has now launched forth a series of ‘Pilot
Studies’ which, through specific community studies, seeks to explore
culture-ecology interrelationship in its myriad manifestations. Lifestyles
and Ecology is the series’ first thematic monograph. With meticulous analyses
of the lifestyles of the Himalayan pastoral nomads, the Lakshadweep
islanders, and Kanyakumari’s Mukkuvar fisherfolk, among others, the studies
here show how these communities follow the spirit of the natural world: not
in imitation, but in continuation of the primal vision. Delineating, thus,
variegated cultural paradigms of these communities, with details like, for
instance, of their belief systems, myths, rituals, folklore, songs, and their
knowledge of cosmology as well as natural phenomena, the authors underscore
the inseparability of nature and culture in the lived experience of
traditional societies the world over. The book also carries a brilliant
overview of ecology vis-a-vis traditional resource management systems. The
authors are ecologists, anthropologists and folklorists of wide repute. |
| Book |
| ISBN |
9788124601037
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| PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
| Binding |
HARDCOVER |
| Edition |
1998 |
| Language |
ENGLISH |
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