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The focus of this research is to analyze the social and spatial transformations of a bounded area, the neighborhood of Elmadağ, whose most noteworthy factor has been the perpetual migration flows since its emergence as a neighborhood in the 19th century. According to the authors, the functional transformation Elma­dağ is currently going through needs the explanations history can provide in order to be apprehended in full. Interdisciplinary, the research blends sociological, anthro­pological...

neighborhood, ethnic minorities, confessional minorities, gentrification, immigration, transit migrations

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Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and they provide valuable insights into the lives of Mongghul people—their hopes, dreams, and worries. They bear testimony to the impressive plurilingual repertoire commanded by some Mongghul singers: the original texts in Tibetan, Mongghul, and Chinese are here presented in Mongghul, Chinese, and English.The kaleidoscope of stories told in these songs include that of Marshall Qi, a chieftain from the Seven Valleys who travels to Luoyang with his Mongghul army to battle rebels; Laarimbu and Qiimunso, a pair of star-crossed lovers who take revenge from beyond the grave on the families that kept them apart; and the Crop-Planting Song and the Sheep Song, which map the physical and spiritual terrain of the Mongghul people, vividly describing the physical and cosmological world in which they exist.This collection of songs is supported by an Introduction by Gerald Roche that provides an understanding of their traditional context, and shows that these works offer insights into the practices of multilingualism in Tibet. Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet is vital reading for researchers and others working on oral literature, as well as those who study Inner Asia, Tibet, and China’s ethnic minorities. Finally, this book is of interest to linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on small-scale multilingualism and pre-colonial multilingualism.

Mongghul oral literature, narrative songs, multilingualism, Tibet, China’s ethnic minorities, pre-colonial multilingualism

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Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the better at many levels and in many ways through their intellectual, emotional, and activist components. This collection focuses on providing a set of captivating essays on the specifics of concrete cases of environmental activism involving most of the main Asian religions from several countries. Particular case studies are drawn from the religions of Animism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism. They are from the countries of Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Thereby this set of case studies offers a very substantial and rich sampling of religious environmental activism in Asia. They are grounded in years of original field research on the subjects covered. Collectively these case studies reveal a fascinating and significant movement of environmental initiatives in engaged practical spiritual ecology in Asia. Accordingly, this collection should be of special interest to a diversity of scientists, academics, instructors, and students as well as communities and leaders from a wide variety of religions, environmentalism, and conservation.

India --- rivers --- Hinduism --- rights of nature --- spiritual ecology --- Ganga --- Yamuna --- solid waste management --- Vajrayana Buddhism --- Bhutan --- rural development --- re-use --- waste reduction --- domestic waste --- materiality --- waste transformation --- discard studies --- reincarnation --- spiritual ecology --- Buddhism --- deforestation --- Buddhist agriculture --- Thailand --- India --- sacred natural sites --- indigenous --- women --- new religious movements --- mobilizations --- Islam --- environmentalism --- fatwa --- biodiversity --- conservation --- Daoism --- ecology --- conservation --- ecological civilization --- Ecological Civilization --- anthropocene --- animate landscapes --- vital landscapes --- watersheds --- geopiety/geopolity --- common property regimes --- religious environmental activism --- China --- Taoism --- sustainability --- Jainism --- Anuvrat Movement --- eco-conscious living --- ecology --- ecological vow-taking --- political ecology --- spiritual ecology --- Ecological Civilization --- civilizing projects --- sustainable development --- ethnic minorities --- indigenous --- Xishuangbanna --- China --- n/a