Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India

by Eliza F. Kent

Book Overview

In recent years, India's "sacred groves," small forests or stands of trees set aside for a deity's exclusive use, have attracted the attention of NGOs, botanists, specialists in traditional medicine, and anthropologists. Environmentalists disillusioned by the failures of massive state-sponsored solutions to ecological problems have hailed them as an exemplary form of traditional community resource management. For in spite of pressures to utilize their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199895481
• ISBN13: 9780199895489
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"