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New book
News: Jan 27, 2010
In the Sacred Forest: Landscape, Livelihood and Spirit Beliefs among the Katu of Vietnam, by Nikolas Århem
SANS Papers in Social Anthropology 10, University of Gothenburg, 2009.
The book examines the relationship between the animistic beliefs and the use of local forest resources among the Katu people in the uplands of central Vietnam. Katu spirit beliefs and perceptions of the landscape provide the experiential basis for Katu people’s respectful and dialogical relationship to their forest surroundings. The book describes how this morally charged relationship between people and landscape is profoundly altered by current development policies in the rapidly modernising Vietnam.
The book is the second in a series of reports of the Katuic Ethnography Project issued by the University of Gothenburg. The first – A Contribution to Katu Ethnography: A Highland People of Central Vietnam by Luu Hung – was published in 2007 (SANS Papers in Social Anthropology 9). Luu Hung’s book is the first comprehensive monograph of the Katu people published in English.
The Katuic Ethnography Project Reports are printed in a limited edition. Copies can be ordered from kaj.arhem@globalstudies.gu.se
Price: 150 SEK per copy.