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Wisdom from a rainforest : the spiritual journey of an anthropologist
- Title
- Wisdom from a rainforest : the spiritual journey of an anthropologist / Stuart A. Schlegel.
- Author
- Schlegel, Stuart A.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS666.T6 S36 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 269 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly. Wisdom from a Rainforest is Schlegel's testament to his experience and to the Teduray people of Figel, from whom he learned such vital, lasting lessons. Schlegel's lively account of Teduray society depicts a peaceful, noncompetitive society whose ideals contrast strikingly with Western values. In their gathering and their hunting, as well as in their subsistence cultivation, the Teduray were careful and mindful inhabitants of the forest. The author portrays their deep respect for nature and one another and recounts with great vividness how their behavior and traditions revolved around kindness and compassion for humans, animals, and the spirits sharing their worlds. Schlegel describes the Teduray's remarkable legal system and their strong story-telling tradition, their elaborate cosmology and their ritual celebrations.
- Subject
- Schlegel, Stuart A., 1932-
- Tiruray (Philippine people) > Social conditions
- Tiruray (Philippine people) > Psychology
- Tiruray (Philippine people) > Ethnic identity
- Deforestation > Philippines > Mindanao Island
- Rain forest ecology > Philippines > Mindanao Island
- Rain forest conservation > Philippines > Mindanao Island
- 73.06 ethnography
- Deforestation
- Politics and government
- Rain forest conservation
- Rain forest ecology
- Tiruray (Philippine people) > Ethnic identity
- Tiruray (Philippine people) > Psychology
- Ethnologie
- Tiruray
- Tropischer Regenwald
- Ökologie
- Anthropologie
- Ethnosoziologie
- Natur
- Tiruray
- Sociale situatie
- Regenwouden
- Tiruray (Philippine people) > Social conditions
- Deforestation > Philippines > Mindanao Island
- Rain forest ecology > Philippines > Mindanao Island
- Rain forest conservation > Philippines > Mindanao Island
- Écologie des forêts pluviales > Mindanao (Philippines)
- Politique et gouvernement > Philippines
- Mindanao Island (Philippines) > Politics and government
- Philippines > Mindanao Island
- Philippinen
- Mindanao Island (Philippines) > Politics and government
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-258) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Trekking to Figel -- 3. Animals That Fly Are Birds -- 4. Mirab Interlude I -- 5. We Were Created to Care for the Forest -- 6. Mirab Interlude II -- 7. Everyone Needs to Be in a Pot -- 8. Mirab Interlude III -- 9. The Woman Who Was Born a Boy -- 10. Cebu Interlude -- 11. Justice without Domination -- 12. Mirab Interlude IV -- 13. Shamans and Sacred Meals -- 14. Mirab Interlude V -- 15. The People You Cannot See -- 16. Mirab Interlude VI -- 17. Catastrophe at Figel -- 18. Visions We Live By.
- ISBN
- 0820320579
- 9780820320571
- LCCN
- 98007608
- OCLC
- ocm39077918
- 39077918
- SCSB-537784
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library