Alchemy In The Rain Forest

Author : Jerry K. Jacka
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237501X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy in the Rain Forest written by Jerry K. Jacka and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribution of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, counters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists who defend the environment from international neoliberal development. Jacka's examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge, and the global economy in Porgera and beyond.

Author : Anna J. Willow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429883897
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding ExtrACTIVISM written by Anna J. Willow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture and power inform recent and ongoing disputes between projects’ proponents and opponents, beneficiaries and victims. Through a series of engaging case studies, she argues that diverse contemporary natural resource conflicts are underlain by a culturally constituted ‘extractivist’ mind-set and embedded in global patterns of political inequity. Offering a synthesizing framework for making sense of complex interconnections among environmental, social, and political dimensions of natural resource disputes, Willow reflects on why extractivism exists, why it matters, and what we might be able to do about it. The book is valuable reading for students and researchers in the environmental social sciences as well as for activists and practitioners.

Author : Michael J. Balick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231101716
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest written by Michael J. Balick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens readers' eyes to the enormous resources of the Earth's rain forests and the potential impact of their destruction in terms of human health.

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Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mazingira written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781888729023
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Places written by Brad Olsen and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.

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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The IDRC Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Holly Wardlow
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520355512
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fencing in AIDS written by Holly Wardlow and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive with the women’s stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be perceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today.

Author : Stephan Harding
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591434262
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaia Alchemy written by Stephan Harding and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Examines how integrating important alchemical images with Gaian science can offer insights into our interconnectedness with Gaia • Looks at how the four components of the living earth--biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere--mesh with the four elements of alchemical theory and the four functions of consciousness as understood by depth psychology • Offers guided meditations and contemplative exercises to open your receptivity to messages from the biosphere and help you connect more deeply with Gaia During the scientific revolution, science and soul were drastically separated, propelling humanity into four centuries of scientific exploration based solely on empiricism and rationality. But, as scientist and ecologist Stephan Harding, Ph.D., demonstrates in detail, by reintegrating science with profound personal experiences of psyche and soul, we can reclaim our lost sacred wholeness and help heal ourselves and our planet. The book begins with compelling introductions to depth psychology, alchemy, and Gaia theory--the science of seeing the Earth as an intelligent, self-regulating system, a theory pioneered by the author’s mentor James Lovelock. Harding then explores how alchemy, as understood through the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, offers us powerful methods of reuniting rationality and intuition, science and soul. He examines the integration of important alchemical engravings, including those from L’Azoth des Philosophes and the Rosarium Philosophorum, with Gaian science. He shows how the seven key alchemical operations in the Azoth image can help us develop deeply transformative experiences and insights into our interconnectedness with Gaia. He then looks at how the four components of the living Earth--biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere--mesh not only with the four elements of alchemical theory but also with the four functions of consciousness from depth psychology. Woven throughout with the author’s own experiences of Gaia alchemy, the book also offers guided meditations and contemplative exercises to open your receptivity to messages from the biosphere and help you develop your own Gaian alchemical way of life, full of wonder and healing.

Author : Michael Starsheen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430304448
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Alchemy (6x9) written by Michael Starsheen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a series of guided spiritual attunements to the elements, environments, the Sun, Moon, stars and planets, and a final attunement to all there is. It is intended to aid people in their process of spiritual growth through inner alchemy, to transform their psyche through attunement with the natural world around them.

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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Anthropological Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: