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Gods, Groves and the Culture of Nature in Kerala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

J. R. Freeman
J. R. Freeman
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

The substantive aim of this essay is to document popular attitudes towards the forest and its biotic resources through time as I have encountered these in the northernmost areas of the modern Indian state of Kerala. The interviews and folk-lore I have drawn upon in the present, however, are very much a legacy of Kerala's past. And since, sadly, most of the forests themselves have become a rapidly fading memory, my approach must be not only anthropological, but also folkloric and ethnohistorical.

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 257 - 302
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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