Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Faizah Zakaria, K. Sivaramakrishnan

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Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the AnthropoceneWhat is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the region, centering the roles of religion and colonialism in shaping the Anthropocene—"the human epoch." Historian Faizah Zakaria traces the conversion of the Batak people in upland Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula to Islam and Christianity during the long nineteenth century. She finds that the process helped shape social structures that voided the natural world of enchantment, ushered in a cash economy, and placed the power to remake local landscapes into the hands of a distant elite. Using a wide array of sources such as family histories, prayer manuscripts, and folktales in tandem with colonial and ethnographic archives, Zakaria brings everyday religion and its far-flung implications into our understanding of the environmental history of the modern world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-02-07
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureCulture, Place, and NatureThe Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Antal sidor280
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
MedarbetareSivaramakrishnan,K.
ISBN9780295751184
UtmärkelserShort-listed for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2024 (United States)

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"In its contents and methods, this captivating case study has far broader relevance beyond its regional focus."(Choice) "While historians have produced studies of individual polities in the region before and after the imposition of imperial rule, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is the first to situate this transition in a much larger environmental and religious perspective, thus providing a vibrant reevaluation of approaches to the Southeast Asian past."(Journal of Southeast Asian Studies) "A valuable scholarly contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of Asian studies, Southeast Asian studies, environmental studies, history, environmental history, and postcolonial studies."(Southeast Asian Studies) "Adroitly crisscrossing different scales, temporalities, and intellectual fields, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is an exemplary piece of interdisciplinary scholarship...Expansive in scope, generous yet incisive in execution, it is a book that scholars and activists interested in the intersection of Indigenous religions, environment, economy, and colonialism can read with great profit."(Indigenous Religious Traditions)