Indigeneity and the Sacred

Fausto Sarmiento is a Professor of Geography and Director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., where as a mountain geographer and expert on Andean ethnoecology, he develops transdisciplinary approaches to critical biogeography and political ecology to achieve sustainable biocultural heritage conservation.Sarah Hitchner is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Integrative Conservation Research and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A. She is a cultural anthropologist specializing in sacred sites and cultural landscapes of Southeast Asia.

• DedicationList of Figures, Tables, and BoxesAcknowledgementsPrologue: Whose Sacred Sites? Indigenous Political Use of Sacred Sites, Mythology, and ReligionRandall BormanPART I: GEOGRAPHIES OF INDIGENOUS REVIVAL AND CONSERVATIONIntroductionFausto Sarmiento and Sarah HitchnerChapter 1. Sacred Natural Sites in a Conservation Management and Policy PerspectiveBas Verschuuren, Robert Wild, and Gerard VerschoorChapter 2. Structural Changes in Latin American Spirituality: An Essay on the Geography of ReligionsAxel BorsdorfPART II: FRAMING SACRED SITES IN INDIGENOUS MINDSCAPESIntroduction to Part II: Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous MindscapesFausto Sarmiento and Sarah HitchnerChapter 3. El Buen Vivir and "The Good Life": A South-North Binary Perspective on the Indigenous, the Sacred, and their ConservationEsmeralda Guevara and Larry M. FrolichChapter 4. Sacred Mountains: Sources of Indigenous Revival and SustenanceEdwin BernbaumChapter 5. Frozen Mummies and the Archaeology of High Mountains in the Construction of Andean IdentityConstanza CerutiChapter 6. Changing Images and Dimensions of Andean Indigenous Identities in Space and TimeChristoph StadelChapter 7. National Park Service Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values to Protected PlacesDavid E. Ruppert and Charles W. SmythePART III: CASE STUDIESIntroduction to Part III: Case StudiesFausto Sarmiento and Sarah HitchnerChapter 8. Collaborative Archaeology as a Tool for Preserving Sacred Sites in the Cherokee HeartlandBenjamin A. SteereChapter 9. Biocultural Sacred Sites in MexicoMindahi Crescencio Bastida Munoz and Geraldine Patrick EncinaChapter 10. New Dimensions in the Territorial Conservation Management in Ecuador: A Brief Political View of Sacred Sites in EcuadorXavier Viteri O. Chapter 11. Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Sustainable Development in the Peruvian AmazonFernando Roca AlcazarPART IV: CONCLUSIONConclusionSarah Hitchner, Fausto Sarmiento, and John SchelhasBibliographyIndex

"The effect of the whole [volume] is to emphasize the importance of saving sites locally sacred to Indigenous or majority peoples, and to take full account of how they are regarded and how they must be reverently and civilly managed to keep from offending...Highly recommended." Choice