The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia

Author:   Faizah Zakaria ,  K. Sivaramakrishnan ,  K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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9780295751184


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   07 February 2023
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The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia


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"What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the region, centering the roles of religion and colonialism in shaping the Anthropocene-""the human epoch."" Historian Faizah Zakaria traces the conversion of the Batak people in upland Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula to Islam and Christianity during the long nineteenth century. She finds that the process helped shape social structures that voided the natural world of enchantment, ushered in a cash economy, and placed the power to remake local landscapes into the hands of a distant elite. Using a wide array of sources such as family histories, prayer manuscripts, and folktales in tandem with colonial and ethnographic archives, Zakaria brings everyday religion and its far-flung implications into our understanding of the environmental history of the modern world."

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Author:   Faizah Zakaria ,  K. Sivaramakrishnan ,  K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780295751184


ISBN 10:   0295751185
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   07 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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In its contents and methods, this captivating case study has far broader relevance beyond its regional focus. * Choice * While historians have produced studies of individual polities in the region before and after the imposition of imperial rule, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is the first to situate this transition in a much larger environmental and religious perspective, thus providing a vibrant reevaluation of approaches to the Southeast Asian past. * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *


In its contents and methods, this captivating case study has far broader relevance beyond its regional focus. * Choice *


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Faizah Zakaria is assistant professor in the Departments of Southeast Asian Studies and Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is coeditor of Fatwas of Singapore: Science, Medicine and Health.

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