TY - ECHAP
KW - agroforestry
KW - ethnobotany
AU - Pei Sheng-ji
AU - Karl L. Hutterer
AU - A. Terry Rambo
AU - George W. Lovelace
AB - This paper details the effects that several cultural practices of the Dai people (a national minority) of Southwest China (Yunnan Province) have on plant environment. Some of these are the introduction and distribution of locally cultivated plants and its link to Hinayana Buddhism; and the preservation of certain pristine forests due to a "Holy Hills" ideology. Also includes the economic and ecological significance of Dai fuelwood cultivation as it relates to conservation.
AN - 91-01468
BT - Cultural values and human ecology in southeast Asia
CN - GN635.S58C83 1985
CY - Ann Arbor, MI
DA - 01/1985
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N1 - Chapter 13
N2 - This paper details the effects that several cultural practices of the Dai people (a national minority) of Southwest China (Yunnan Province) have on plant environment. Some of these are the introduction and distribution of locally cultivated plants and its link to Hinayana Buddhism; and the preservation of certain pristine forests due to a "Holy Hills" ideology. Also includes the economic and ecological significance of Dai fuelwood cultivation as it relates to conservation.
PB - University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies
PP - Ann Arbor, MI
PY - 1985
SN - 0-89148-039-0
SP - 321
EP - 339
T2 - Cultural values and human ecology in southeast Asia
T3 - Michigan papers on south and southeast Asia no. 27
TI - Some effects of the Dai people's cultural beliefs and practices upon the plant environment of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, Southwest China
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13134089
ER -