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    Asian Perceptions of Nature : A Critical Approach (2014)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780700703012
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (286 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Asian Perceptions of Nature
    DDC: 304.2/095
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Images of Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Man-Environment Relations in Asia; Socio-Political Structures and the Southeast Asian Ecosystem: An Historical Perspective up to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Sacred Trees and Haunted Forests in Indonesia - Particularly Java, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Taming Nature - Controlling Fertility: Concepts of Nature and Gender among the Isan of Northeast Thailand; Thinking through Nature in Highland Nepal
    Description / Table of Contents: State Intervention and Community Protest: Nature Conservation in Hunza, North PakistanNature in the Kalasha Perception of Life; Nature as the Virgin Forest: Farmers' Perspectives on Nature and Sustainability in Low-Resource Agriculture in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka; Fengshui and the Chinese Perception of Nature; The Japanese Attitude to Nature: A Framework of Basic Ontological Conceptions; Japanese Advertising Nature: Ecology, Women, Fashion and Art; Culture in Japanese Nature; Nature, Religion and Cultural Identity: The Religious Environmentalist Paradigm; List of Contributors
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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    Mongolia : AH01 (2007)
    New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, Inc
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
    RVK:
    LB 24435
    Keywords: Mongolia ; Mongolia--History ; Mongolia--Politics and government ; Mongols ; Mongols--Ethnology ; Mongols--History ; Mongols--Kinship ; Mongols--Law ; Mongols--Music
    Abstract: This collection of 21 documents contains general data on Mongolia, its inhabitants, and on the Mongol (Menggus) people during the time period from 1200 AD-2000. Documents cover both the present country of Mongolia and historical Mongolia which includes Imperial Mongolia and tribes living in Russia and China. The major works include a handbook on twentieth-century Mongolia from the Far Eastern and Russian Institute, two books on kinship system and structure by Krader and Vreeland, one on tribal organization by Lattimore, and one on Mongolian law by Riasanovsky
    Note: - Mongol community and kinship structure - [by] Herbert Harold Vreeland, III - 1973 -- - The changing world of Mongolia's nomads - photography and text by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall - 1994 -- - Nationalism and hybridity in Mongolia - Uradyn E. Bulag - 1998 -- - A Society and economy in transition - Ole Bruun and Ole Odgaard - 1996 -- - The herding household: economy and organization - Ole Bruun - 1996 -- - Living standards and poverty - Ole Odgaard - 1996 -- - Mongolian nomadic society: a reconstruction of the 'medieval' history of Mongolia - Bat-Ochir Bold - 2001 -- - Rituals of death as a context for understanding personal property in socialist Mongolia - Caroline Humphrey - 2002 -- - My Mongolia - Munhtuya Altangerel - 2001 -- - The twentieth century: from domination to democracy - Nasan Dashdendeviin Bumaa - 2001 -- - DEEL, GER, and altar: continuity and change in Mongolian material culture - Eliot Grady Bikales - 2001 -- - Genghis Khan: father of Mongolian democracy - Paula L. W. Sabloff - 2001 , Culture summary: Mongolia - William Jankowiak and HRAF Staff (synopsis and indexing notes) - 2006 -- - Preliminary remarks on Mongolian musical instruments - [by] Ernst Emsheimer - 1943 -- - Mongolia - [by] Owen Lattimore - 1933 -- - Fundamental principles of Mongolian law - [by] Aleksandrovich Valentin Riasanovsky - 1937 -- - The Torguts of Etsin-Gol - [by] Gösta Montell - 1940 -- - Kinship systems of the Altaic-speaking peoples of the Asiatic steppe - [by] Lawrence Krader - [n.d.] -- - Distilling in Mongolia - [by] Gösta Montell - 1937 -- - Outer Mongolia and its international position - [by] Gerard M. Friters ; introduction by Owen Lattimore - 1949 -- - Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia) - Far Eastern and Russian Institute of the University of Washington - 1956 -- - Contemporary Mongolia - [by] I. Maiskii - 1921 --
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