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This important volume views gender relations as a crucial factor in the management of land and forests, and maintains that the continuing invisibility of women in these areas only compounds poverty, shortages, and the increased workloads of forest-based women.
Based on fieldwork conducted in several forest societies in China, Thailand, India and Malaysia, the contributors explore the changes in gender relations within indigenous communities, from matrilineal and/or gender egalitarian systems to ones where male domination is the norm. They assess changes in gender relations in forest-based societies in four situations:
- where there has been an imposition of colonial and state rule over forest communities
- where historical and contemporary revolts of forest-dwellers have taken place to reestablish community control over forests
- where states have responded to these autonomy movements by resorting to devolution
- where women?s inclusion in local forest management is increasingly becoming a policy norm
Table of Contents
Foreword by PHRANG ROY
Introduction: Forest Societies in Asia: Gender Relations and Change GOVIND KELKAR and DEV NATHAN
I. HISTORY AND MYTH: Gender Roles in History: Women as Hunters K S SINGH
The Fireplace: Gender and Culture among Yunnan Nationalities YANG FUQUAN
Shu: Naxi Nature Goddesses Archetype XI YUHUA
Appropriation of Women?s Indigenous Knowledge: The Case of the Matrilineal Lua in Northern Thailand CHOLTHIRA SATYAWADHANA
Gender Relations and Witches among the Indigenous Communities of Jharkhand, India SAMAR BOSU MULLICK
II. FOREST MANAGEMENT: Forest Management in Mosuo Matrilineal Society, Yunnan, China HE ZHONGHUA
Naxi Women: Protection and Management of Forests in Lijiang, China YANG FUQUAN and XI YUHUA
Bobolizan, Forests and Gender Relations in Sabah, Malaysia PAUL PORODONG
Khasi Women and Matriliny: Transformations in Gender Relations TIPLUT NONGBRI
Women and Forest: A Study of the Warlis of Western India INDRA MUNSHI
Empowerment and Disempowerment of Forest Women in Uttarakhand, India MADHU SARIN
IndexISBN - 9780761997832
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Pages : 320
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