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Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans

Annu Jalais

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Description:An anthropology of the human/nature interface in the Sundarban islands, this book examines how people living in the region perceive the mangrove forests and its man-eating tigers. The author focuses on three social groups — forest-workers, prawn-collectors and landowners — and their understandings of the environment are used to draw distinctions between the bhadralok (upper class or caste) and gramerlok (villagers), and also offers an anthropologically and historically grounded analysis of religion, especially the interconnections between Hinduism and Islam, through an analysis of forest workers’ worship of forest deities like Bon Bibi, as also the politics of global conservation and eco-tourism. A rare book focusing on the environment in contemporary Bangladesh, it also offers a new frame of reference to understand social relations in the Indic world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans. To get started finding Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An anthropology of the human/nature interface in the Sundarban islands, this book examines how people living in the region perceive the mangrove forests and its man-eating tigers. The author focuses on three social groups — forest-workers, prawn-collectors and landowners — and their understandings of the environment are used to draw distinctions between the bhadralok (upper class or caste) and gramerlok (villagers), and also offers an anthropologically and historically grounded analysis of religion, especially the interconnections between Hinduism and Islam, through an analysis of forest workers’ worship of forest deities like Bon Bibi, as also the politics of global conservation and eco-tourism. A rare book focusing on the environment in contemporary Bangladesh, it also offers a new frame of reference to understand social relations in the Indic world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans. To get started finding Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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