5 articles tagged with Ecology
Anthropology
Finale: The Dao Follows Nature: When Religion Becomes an Organ of the Earth — Reflections on a Four-Part “Religion–Ecology” Suite in Southwest China
The theoretical capstone of the Southwestern frontier fieldwork suite: drawing upon Gregory Bateson's ecology of mind to explore how sacred reverence functions as the Earth's self-healing organ, proposing a 'Third Path' beyond instrumental modernism and romantic isolation.
Zichen (Iris) Zhu
Xishuangbanna: A Green Desert and a Golden Wonder — Dual “Reformatting” and Ecological Collapse
The final chapter of the Southwestern frontier fieldwork: examining how state-driven high modernism and consumerist cultural tourism in Xishuangbanna enacted a dual reformatting of rainforest ecology and Theravada Buddhist sacredness, producing a green desert draped in gold leaf.
“Tea of the Soul”: Modern Resilience Rooted in the Belief That All Things Have Spirits and the Symbiosis of Forest and Tea
A fieldwork investigation on Jingmai Mountain, exploring how the Blang people's thousand-year-old animist Tea Spirit beliefs and forest-tea symbiotic system resist commodification, offering a living model of ecological resilience.
“Mu Yiji” Behind the Fence: The Pathology of Sacred Spaces in Wengding, the Ancient Moon Village, and Mount Awa
A fieldwork exploration into Mount Awa, examining how the traditional sacred order of Mu Yiji and the ancestral banyan trees of Wengding and Moon Ancient Village are gently displaced and tamed by modern tourism, heritage preservation, and cash-crop economies.
Mangshi: When Sacred Groves Meet the Cross — Religious Transformation and the Fate of Trees in Mangshi Villages
