Environment and Belief Systems (Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0367410184 ISBN 13: 9780367410186

Verlag: Routledge India, 2020

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Part of the Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies series, this book deals with environment and belief systems of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It explores indigenous perspectives related to religion, ritual and cultural practice, art and design, natural resources as well as climate change impacts.

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G. N. Devy is Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People's Linguistic Survey of India. An award-winning writer and cultural activist, he is known for his 50-volume language survey. He is Founder Director of the Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh in Gujarat, India, and was formerly Professor of English at M. S. University of Baroda. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Linguapax Prize, Prince Claus Award and Padma Shri. With several books in English, Marathi and Gujarati, he has co-edited (with Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (2012); Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (2013); Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts (2014); and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016), published by Routledge.

Geoffrey V. Davis was Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He was international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch (EACLALS). He coedited Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013).

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367410184
• ISBN 13: 9780367410186
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214
• Herausgeber: G. N. Devy, Davis Geoffrey V.
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