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Examples of forests are taken from Asia, Africa and South America, thus reflecting the global nature of the phenomenon. The book's conclusions will have far-reaching implications for all who are concerned with the conservation of forests and their indigenous human population.
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Foreword vii; FRANZ SCHMITHOSEN; 1. Introduction 1; KLAUS SEELAND; 2. Culturing trees: socialized knowledge in the political; ecology of Kissia and Kuranko forest islands of Guinea 7; JAMES FAIRHEAD AND MELISSA LEACH; 3. The perceived environment as a system of knowledge and; meaning: a study of the Mewahang Rai of eastern Nepal 19; BARUN GURUNG; 4. Tatari: livelihood and danger in upland Japan 28; JOHN KNIGHT; 5. Forests and trees in the cultural landscape of Lawa; swidden farmers in northern Thailand 44; DIETRICH SCHMIDT-VOGT; 6. Tree marriage in India 51; ROBERT PARKIN; 1. The influence of religious beliefs and rituals on forest; conservation in Nepal 57; ANDREW W. INGLES; 8. The Huaorani and their trees: managing and imagining; the Ecuadorian rain forest 67; LAURA RIVAL; 9. Where trees do matter for society: the socio-cultural aspects; of sal (Shorea robusta) and salap (Caryota urens L.) in the; Similipal hills of Orissa, India 79; MIHIR KUMAR JENA, KLAUS SEELAND AND KAMALA KUMARIPATNAIK; 10. War, forests and the future: the environmental understanding; of the young in Sierra Leone 90; PAUL RICHARDS; 11. Indigenous knowledge of trees and forests in non-; European societies 101; KLAUS SEELAND; 12. Forests and trees in the world of two Tamang villages in; central Nepal: observations with special reference to the; role of Tamang women in forest management 113; BETT1NA MAAG; Appendix to Chapter 12 130; Notes on contributors 136; Notes 138; Bibliography 142
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Klaus Seeland (PD, Dr., M.A.), born 1952 is at present reader in Sociology and Forest Resource Economics at the Chair of Forest Policy and Forest Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich/Switzerland), in Sociology at the University of Konstanz Germany) and Vice Chairman of 'Economic and Social Aspects of Forests in Developing countries', at the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO).
