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A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
Table des matières
I. Introduction
By Prof. Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies/East Asian Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara)
II. Exploring Non-Anthropocentric Ontologies
Chapter 1: Protecting Life in Taiwan: Can the Rights of Nature Protect all Sentient Beings?
By Jeffrey Nicolaisen (Duke Kunshan University, China)
III. The Sacralization of Trees and Forests
Chapter 2: From Mission to Economy: The Vicissitudes of Daoist Ecological Forests in Minqin County, Gansu Province
By Der-Rui Yang (Anthropology, Nanjing University, China)
Chapter 3: Homo Arborealus: The Intermeshing of Regimes of Tree-Mindedness
By Adam Chau (East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.)
IV. Sentient Beings: Engaging with Animals and Divinities in Dreams and Rituals
Chapter 4: The Non-Anthropocentricity of Dreaming in Late Classical and Medieval China
By Robert Ford Campany (Asian Studies & Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University)
Chapter 5: Releasing Animals for Buddhist Merit in the Context of Science and Ecology
By Dedong Wei (Institute of Theoretical Buddhist & Religious Studies, Renmin University, China)
V. Sacred Sites and Fengshui Landscapes
Chapter 6: Fengshui and Livelihoods: Debating Sustainability in the Qing Dynasty
By Tristan Brown (History, M.I.T.)
Chapter 7: Grave Matters: The Confucian Campaign against Tomb-Removal
By Yongjia Liang (Sociology, National University of Singapore / Zhejiang University, China)
VI. Negotiating the Divides Between the Secular-Religious and Culture-Nature
Chapter 8: Buddhist Environmentalism and Civic Engagement in Secular Shanghai
By Weishan Huang (Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
A propos de l'auteur
Mayfair Yang is professor of religious and East Asian studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has authored two monographs: Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: the Art of Social Relationships in China (American Ethnological Society Prize) and Re-enchanting Modernity in China: Ritual Economy and Religious Civil Society in Wenzhou) and has edited two books: Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation and Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China.
Résumé
A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
