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Folk Traditions and Ecology in Himachal Pradesh
Usha Bande

ISBN : 8173871973
Year / Edition : 2006 /First
Pages : 175 + 16 plates
Size / Format : 8.5" X 5.5" / Hardcover
Price : Rs. 350  
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Every culture has its narratives and beliefs that seek answers to the intricate and abstract questions about the universe and the place of man in it. And every culture and its different communities have evol-ved their survival strategies. These have become repository of human experience.
In Himachal Pradesh, people expe-rience ‘Nature’ in its benign as well as formidable mood. Their view of life is rooted in their folk environmentalism and their folk traditions are ingrained in recasting the religious and philosophical interpretation of human relationship with the natural world in simple everyday forms. It is an unspecified, unwritten com-mitment towards the source of life, a reiteration of man’s inability to compre-hend the forces of nature—both non-human and super-human.
Environmental problems are generally conceptualized as problems of physical systems and concomitantly, solutions to these are sought through scientific analy-sis. But somewhere between ecology as science and ecology as a living discipline there stands another field—that of folk wisdom. It posits the need to look back for affirmation of deeper human relationship with the earth.
This book is an effort to depict the folk traditions—be it of the tribals or non-tribals—and to see its conflicts and har-mony, its strength and weakness so that a new mythology emerges in which the synthesis of the modern and the tradi-tional is achieved. The book discusses the folk traditions through which the people learn to respect and conserve the ecology.

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 Table of contents...
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
  1. Introduction
  2. Folklore and Ecology: The Connecting Links
  3. Cosmological Consciousness and Temple Lore
  4. Local Deities Alias the Power of Nature
  5. Justice for Trees: Role of Myths and Traditional Wisdom
  6. Folk Arts and Ecology
  7. Conclusion
Glossary of Local Terms
Select Bibliography
Appendix
Index

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 About the author...
Dr. Usha Bande , till recently Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, was on the faculty of English Literature in Govt. College for Women, Shimla, and Principal of Govt. College, Arki. Having had a brilliant academic career, she worked for her doctorate on the novels of Anita Desai, interpreting Desai’s characters from the angle of Third Force psychology, an innovative app-roach, which has been widely acclaimed by U.S. scholars in the field. Dr. Usha Bande has numerous research papers and seven books to her credit. She completed a major U.G.C. project on the Indian Short Stories in 1998, and has worked recently in the field of Women’s Studies at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She visited the U.S. as an associate, and Canada under the Cultural Exchange Program.
Dr. Bande has attended a large number of seminars, international and national conferences, chaired sessions, delivered lectures at Academic Staff Colleges all over the country and written extensively. Writing for magazines and newspapers is her passion, along with photography.

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