Redefining nature : Karen ecological knowledge and the challenge to the modern conservation paradigm
This dissertation is an ethnography that offers a critical analysis of issues in contemporary conservation politics in Thailand. By examining the development of the dominant nature conservation ideology and response by the Karen, a group of ethnic hill people, to changing pattern of environmental co...
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Định dạng: | Sách |
Ngôn ngữ: | Undetermined |
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Chennai
Earthworm Books
2002
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Thư viện lưu trữ: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ |
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Tóm tắt: | This dissertation is an ethnography that offers a critical analysis of issues in contemporary conservation politics in Thailand. By examining the development of the dominant nature conservation ideology and response by the Karen, a group of ethnic hill people, to changing pattern of environmental control, the dissertation focuses on two main themes. The first part covers the Thai forest history and the role of development of scientific forestry in shaping discourses and practices of Thai nature conversation. The latter part explores Karen ecological knowledge and its chanllenge to the modern conservation paradigm |
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