McNeely, Jeffrey A.
Soul of the tiger : searching for nature's answers in Southeast Asia / Jeffrey A. McNeely and Paul Spencer Sochaczewski. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1995] - xxvi, 390 p., [16] p. of plates, : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
"A Kolowalu book." Previously published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379) and index.
In Soul of the Tiger, conservationists Jeffrey McNeely and Paul Sochaczewski draw on more than two decades of experience in Southeast Asia to examine the relationship between its people and animals. What, they wonder, has this relationship meant in the past? How is it changing, and what relevance might it have for the future? Combining sound scholarship with an engaging style, their fascinating and often humorous accounts reveal the vital connection between rural people and wildlife: between the Bornean farmer and the yellow wagtail, without whose arrival rice goes unplanted; between the wife in Papua New Guinea and her pigs, whose breeding rate determines when she gets a break from housework and when her husband goes to war; between the guards in Java's Ujung Kulon National Park and the rhinoceros, whose urine they collect as a cure for earaches. The authors identify four major ecocultural revolutions that have significantly altered the relationship between people and nature. They suggest that a fifth revolution, characterized by respect and understanding of the traditional knowledge and insight reflected in myth and memory, will enable modern society to develop nature conservation programs with a chance of lasting success.
0824816692 9780824816698
94045557
Animals and civilization--Southeast Asia.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia--Social life and customs.
Southeast Asia--Description and travel.
QL85 / .M36 1995
333.95/0959
Soul of the tiger : searching for nature's answers in Southeast Asia / Jeffrey A. McNeely and Paul Spencer Sochaczewski. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1995] - xxvi, 390 p., [16] p. of plates, : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
"A Kolowalu book." Previously published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379) and index.
In Soul of the Tiger, conservationists Jeffrey McNeely and Paul Sochaczewski draw on more than two decades of experience in Southeast Asia to examine the relationship between its people and animals. What, they wonder, has this relationship meant in the past? How is it changing, and what relevance might it have for the future? Combining sound scholarship with an engaging style, their fascinating and often humorous accounts reveal the vital connection between rural people and wildlife: between the Bornean farmer and the yellow wagtail, without whose arrival rice goes unplanted; between the wife in Papua New Guinea and her pigs, whose breeding rate determines when she gets a break from housework and when her husband goes to war; between the guards in Java's Ujung Kulon National Park and the rhinoceros, whose urine they collect as a cure for earaches. The authors identify four major ecocultural revolutions that have significantly altered the relationship between people and nature. They suggest that a fifth revolution, characterized by respect and understanding of the traditional knowledge and insight reflected in myth and memory, will enable modern society to develop nature conservation programs with a chance of lasting success.
0824816692 9780824816698
94045557
Animals and civilization--Southeast Asia.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia--Social life and customs.
Southeast Asia--Description and travel.
QL85 / .M36 1995
333.95/0959
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