Description
| Product ID: | 9781032265193 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Earthscan Forest Library |
| Title: | The Cultural Value of Trees |
| Subtitle: | Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation |
| Authors: | Author: Jeffrey Wall |
| Page Count: | 252 |
| Subjects: | Religion: general, Religion: general, Cultural studies, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Anthropology, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Botany and plant sciences, Forests and woodland, Human geography, Applied ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation of the environment, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Agricultural science, Forestry and silviculture, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Cultural studies, Folklore, myths & legends, Anthropology, Agriculture & related industries, Botany & plant sciences, Forests, rainforests, Human geography, Applied ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation of the environment, Environmental science, engineering & technology, Agricultural science, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Natural history, Trees, wildflowers & plants, The Earth: natural history general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. This field of value, comprising cosmological, aesthetic, eco-erotic, sentimental, mnemonic value and much more, serves as powerful motivation for the local performance of environmental care. The motivation to maintain and conserve ecology for the purpose of cultural survival will be the central focus of this book, as the conditions of the Anthropocene urgently require the identification, understanding and support of enduring, self-perpetuating biocultural associations. The geographical scope is broad with chapters discussing different tree species from the Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia, Eurasia and Australia and Africa. By focusing on the tree, one of the most reliably cross-culturally-valued and cross-culturally-recognized biological forms, and one which invariably defines expansive landscapes, this work illuminates how folk value binds the survival of more-than-human life forms with the survival of specific peoples in the era of biocultural loss, the Anthropocene. As such, this collection of cross-cultural cases of tree folk value represents a low hanging fruit for the larger project of exploring the power of cultural value of the more-than-human living world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, biodiversity, biocultural studies and environmental anthropology. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-01-29 |
