1st Edition
Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia
Introduction - Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
PART I – Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Shamanism 1. At the Articulation of Nature and Artifice - Charles Malamoud 2. Nature and Culture in Tibetan Philosophy - Stéphane Arguillère 3. Allah, Saints and Men in Islam - Marc Gaborieau 4. Variations in Shamanist Siberia - Roberte N. Hamayon
PART II – Himalayan Case Studies 5. To be more Natural than Others - Marie Lecomte-Tilouine 6. Subjectivity and Governance in the Himalayan Environment - Ben Campbell 7. Political Aspects of the Territorial Cult among the Mewahang Rai - Martin Gaenszle 8. ‘Wilderness of the Civilization’ - Subhadra Mitra Channa 9. Love and Vengeance in Indus Kohistan - Claus Peter Zoller 10. Conceptions on Tibetan Relics - Rachel Guidoni 11. Plant Growth Processes and Animal Health in Northwest Yunnan - Andreas Wilkes 12. Terrace Cultivation and Mental Landscapes in Southern Yunnan - Pascal Bouchery 13. The Sacred Confluence, between Nature and Culture - Chiara Letizia
Biography
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is Senior Researcher in Social Anthropology at CNRS, France, and teaches at the Institut National des Langues Orientales, Paris. She has recently published Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal (Collected Essays), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009
