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.

Dedication

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes

Acknowledgements



Prologue: Whose Sacred Sites? Indigenous Political Use of Sacred Sites, Mythology, and Religion

Randall Borman



PART I: GEOGRAPHIES OF INDIGENOUS REVIVAL AND CONSERVATION



Introduction

Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner



Chapter 1. Sacred Natural Sites in a Conservation Management and Policy Perspective

Bas Verschuuren, Robert Wild, and Gerard Verschoor



Chapter 2. Structural Changes in Latin American Spirituality: An Essay on the Geography of Religions

Axel Borsdorf



PART II: FRAMING SACRED SITES IN INDIGENOUS MINDSCAPES



Introduction to Part II: Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes

Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner



Chapter 3. El Buen Vivir and “The Good Life”: A South-North Binary Perspective on the Indigenous, the Sacred, and their Conservation

Esmeralda Guevara and Larry M. Frolich



Chapter 4. Sacred Mountains: Sources of Indigenous Revival and Sustenance

Edwin Bernbaum



Chapter 5. Frozen Mummies and the Archaeology of High Mountains in the Construction of Andean Identity

Constanza Ceruti



Chapter 6. Changing Images and Dimensions of Andean Indigenous Identities in Space and Time

Christoph Stadel



Chapter 7. National Park Service Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values to Protected Places

David E. Ruppert and Charles W. Smythe



PART III: CASE STUDIES



Introduction to Part III: Case Studies

Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner



Chapter 8. Collaborative Archaeology as a Tool for Preserving Sacred Sites in the Cherokee Heartland

Benjamin A. Steere



Chapter 9. Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico

Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz and Geraldine Patrick Encina



Chapter 10. New Dimensions in the Territorial Conservation Management in Ecuador: A Brief Political View of Sacred Sites in Ecuador

Xavier Viteri O.




Chapter 11. Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon

Fernando Roca Alcazar



PART IV: CONCLUSION



Conclusion

Sarah Hitchner, Fausto Sarmiento, and John Schelhas



Bibliography

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