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<br> This remarkable book introduces us to trees in a new way. Beginning with a critique of the idea of 'the primitive' in earlier forms of discourse, Haberman makes connections between the trees that inhabit our driving metaphors and the trees that surround us in nature. Through the presentation of careful ethnographic research in northern India, Haberman explains the living reciprocity between human and trees at the core of Hindu faith and practice, providing an important context for understanding the living reality of what Schweitzer called 'reverence for all life.' -- Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University <br><p><br> People Trees is essential Haberman. The book takes an ancient practice, the honoring of trees in India, and places it in historical and contemporary perspective. This is accomplished with theoretical sophistication, rigorous reading of ancient texts, and moving narratives from fieldwork. In the end Haberman gives us a new ecological and human perspective on trees in India, and we wonder why we have never thought of things this way before. Haberman throws all the pieces in the air, and when they come down, they form an elegant, compassionate, and transformative argument that means we will never look at trees the same way again. -- Laurie L. Patton, author of Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice, and translator of the Bhagavad Gita, Penguin Classics Series<p><br>

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David L. Haberman is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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