Khasi hills and Khasi culture: Reconnection in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s The Yearning of Seeds

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayantan Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Present Context

This article attempts a post-pastoral reading of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s The Yearning of Seeds through the concept of reconnection in the context of contemporary socio-political and environmental conditions of Meghalaya. The traditional Khasi belief system considers the physical environment as sacred, but at the present time the Khasi Hills are experiencing reckless plundering of natural resources as commodities for consumption. Nongkynrih probes deeply into the present relationship between the Khasi Hills and the Khasi culture, and engages in a complex negotiation with this society and its environment. This negotiation leads to the realization of the need for establishing a renewed relationship between the Khasi Hills and the Khasi culture in the present context of a changing environment and the withering of the traditional culture. A post-pastoral reading of Nongkynrih’s poems exposes the complexity of the negotiation that leads to this realization, of a new sense of Khasi experience and identity.

Lawad, Ye’ Yo’ and Tum Yap : The manifestation of forest in the lives of the Bateks in Taman Negara National Park

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Fatanah Kamarul Zahari ◽  
Mustaffa Omar ◽  
Salleh Daim
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
National Park ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Dynamic Dimension ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Open Access Article

This paper attempts to explore the manifestations of the forest in the lives of the Bateks who reside within the vast region of the Taman Negara National Park in Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. Such manifestations emerged from the mutual relationship between the Bateks and their surroundings of the forest. In the Bateks belief system, there exist the concept of Lawad, Ye’ Yo’ and Tum Yap; all of which represent the Bateks’ unique way of giving value to the forest. Lawad, Ye’ Yo’ and Tum Yap are the manifestations of how the Bateks navigate themselves in the forest. The Bateks see that the forest represents a dynamic dimension which has to be calmed through good spirits and behavior because the physical environment is a medium for the spiritual world to express its feelings, thinking, decisions, and punishments. This belief is to them the best way in endearing themselves to the environment. To the Bateks, all concerns for the forest could be settled through this belief. © 2016 The Author. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK.. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia. Keywords: Environment-behaviour, indigenous people, Orang Asli, Orang Batek, taboos, Taman  Negara, National Park.

The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Dodds ◽  
Jamie Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Uncertain Future

The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of the Arctic, its physical environment, and its people. The Arctic is demanding global attention as it warms, melts, and thaws in a manner that threatens not just its 4 million inhabitants, but the whole planet. The reduction of the Arctic to its changing environment would ignore the complexities of the region and its potential. This VSI explores key issues facing the region today, from geopolitics to global warming. It examines the causes and effects of cultural, physical, ecological, political, and economic change in the Arctic, and considers its uncertain future.

scholarly journals Confusion and Panic: Health & Environment

1970 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The World

Health concerns have gained proportional attention among the peoples and governments of the world. Or at least it looks that way! Terms like Cholesterol, Triglyceride, Diabetes, Tumor, Benign, Malignant are all too familiar to many. Health food and diets have mushroomed into large money making industries. I wonder if they are life-saving too! Furthermore, it is becoming more difficult to separate between health and environment. Hence, the deterioration of health conditions all over the world is closely associated to impairments in environmental conditions and natural resources.

scholarly journals Pattern Zone Ecosystem of Mangrove in Juanga Village, Morotai Island District

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Kismanto Koroy ◽  
Sandra Hi. Muhammad ◽  
Nurafni Nurafni ◽  
Nurti Boy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Middle Zone ◽  
Rhizophora Mucronata ◽  
Rhizophora Apiculata ◽  
Xylocarpus Granatum ◽  
Sonneratia Alba ◽  
Ceriops Decandra ◽  
The Village ◽  
Front Zone

ABSTRACTMangroves are one of the most important natural resources in coastal areas. Availability of various types of food that are on ecosystems is already making its presence as a local nursery, where searching for eating and also serve as a regional tourist ecosystem of mangrove. In use as Regional tourist mangrove need to attention the condition of the physical environment and the distribution pattern of zoning. Research is carried out in the month October to November 2019 in the village of Juanga Regency island of Morotai. Data zoning mangrove using the method of the combination is to combine the methods of plots to track transects, to determine the four stations of observation of each respective stations and each station is divided into three zones: zone front, zone of middle and zone back starting from the point of the outermost growth of types of mangrove constituent primary to the point of transition between sea and land. The research results of the study found 5 types of mangroves namely Rhizophora mucronata, Ceriops decandra, Rhizophora apiculata, Xylocarpus granatum and Sonneratia alba. The distribution of zoning patterns in the front zones of station I and the middle zone is dominated by Rhizophora mucronata and Rhizophora apiculata types, the rear zone is dominated by Ceriops decandra. Station II front zone is dominated by Sonneratia alba, middle zone (Rhizophora mucronata), rear zone (Ceriops decandra). At station III the front zone (Rhizophora apiculata), the middle zone and the rear zone (Ceriops decandra) while at station IV the front zone, the middle zone and the rear zone are dominated by the Ceriops decandra type.

Success and failure of sand goby culture.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Khanh Pham
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Sand Goby ◽  
Export Markets ◽  
Seed Supply ◽  
Wild Seed

Abstract The success in the seed production of the sand goby (Oxyeleotris marmorata) has contributed to the protection of natural resources and the availability of seed for aquaculture. About 30-50 million sand goby fingerlings are produced in hatcheries for domestic and export markets every year. Grow-out production systems of sand goby developed in the 1990s. It helped to increase the incomes of many fish farmers and contributed to the country's foreign exchange earnings. Constraints to hatchery-produced seed for grow-out have resulted in difficulties for sand goby seed producers. Hatchery-produced seed commands a higher price than wild seed and thus is not able to completely replace the natural seed supply. However, wild seed is of uneven size and capture methods are not standardized, resulting in the fish body being easily scratched, leading to disease and mortality. The fish is sensitive to changes in environmental conditions and vulnerable to diseases which are difficult to treat. The market for this species is also limited.

Barbuda and the Provisioning of the Codrington Estates on Antigua

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Food Crops ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
The People ◽  
Sugar Plantations ◽  
Labor System

For most of the colonial period, the Codrington family had exclusive control over the island of Barbuda. Deploying the labor of enslaved African workers, they developed the island into an important source of food and other supplies to provision their sugar plantations on nearby Antigua. This chapter examines how Barbuda’s natural resources, built landscape, and labor system were all directed toward that purpose. In particular, it compares the Codringtons’ management strategies with those of Samuel Martin and William Byam, who sub-leased the island from 1746 to 1761. In addition, Anderson argues that enslaved people on Barbuda experienced a unique form of bondage geared toward herding and cultivation of food crops rather than sugar production. It also examines how the particular environmental conditions on Barbuda both offered opportunities and presented challenges for the people lived and worked there.

Links between language and society among the Murui of north-west Amazonia

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
North West ◽  
Northern Peru

Murui, a Witototan language spoken in southern Colombia and northern Peru, has at its disposal a number of linguistic features that mirror the structure of the Murui society, the Murui belief system, the environment the Murui people live in, and their means of subsistence. Demonstrable associations between linguistic and non-linguistic features (the so-called “integration points”) discussed here are: classifiers (and their significance in terms of the Murui beliefs, religion, spirits, and dreams, and the means of subsistence), possessive marking (vs. the relations within the Murui community, social hierarchies, and kinship categorization), spatial adverbs (vs. the means of subsistence and physical environment), and linguistic avoidance terms (vs. the beliefs, religion, spirits, and dreams). As the Murui people are gradually being drawn into the Colombian market economy and relevant cultural practises become obsolete, some correlations described here are more prone to disintegrate than others.

scholarly journals DAYA DUKUNG LINGKUNGAN FISIK TERHADAP KELAYAKAN DAYA TARIK WISATA TAMAN TIRTA GANGGA DESA ABABI KABUPATEN KARANGASEM

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Bayu Dwitya Sukmana ◽  
Ida Bagus Suryawan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Secondary Data Sources ◽  
Archaeological Objects

ABSTRACT The development of tourism in essence to develop and utilize the destination and tourist attraction in the form of a beautiful natural resources, the diversity of flora and fauna, cultural, historical, archaeological objects and cultural diversity. In order to achieve the objectives of tourism development of the Development of tourism should be directed to the use of natural resources, the greater the resources you have, the greater the hope for achieving development goals and the development of tourism. Based on studies that revealed the problems, how the carrying capacity of the physical environment on the feasibility of tourism attraction tirta gangga, Karangasem regency Ababi village? To unravel this issue, this study uses primary and secondary data sources, whereas the type of data used is also quantitative and qualitative data. Methods of collecting data through observation, interviews, and literary study. Analysis of the data used is a qualitative descriptive analysis. The results showed that, tourism development in the tourist destination, has an influence on the physical environment. In terms of its physical environment, support the building in a popular tourist destination such as supporting the existence of a tourist destination has been organized than previous years.

LINGKUNGAN FISIK DI SEKITAR SEKOLAH SEBAGAI SUMBER BELAJAR IPS SMP NEGERI 3 JORONG KABUPATEN TANAH LAUT

Jurnal Socius ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erma Ariani
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Rubber Plantation ◽  
Learning Resource

AbstractUtilization of the environment as a learning resource in teaching and learning process Social Studies in school is very important, because the environment is very rich in information. This study aims to describe: (1) physical environmental conditions around SMP Negeri 3 Jorong Tanah Laut Regency; (2) utilization of the physical environment around the school as a learning resource Social Studies students of SMP Negeri 3 Jorong Tanah Laut District. The research method used is descriptive with qualitative approach. Source of data obtained from informants, images, photos, documents, field notes and writings. Data collection is done by direct observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. To obtain data validity using data/source triangulation and method triagulation. Analytical techniques used are data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results showed that: (1) Around the junior high school 3 Jorong school there are various sources of learning that can be utilized for teaching and learning activities. Some places or physical environmental conditions around SMP Negeri 3 Jorong that can be extracted and used to be used as a source of learning Social Studies such as agricultural land/rice fields, oil palm plantation, rubber plantation, rejo village office, poskesdes. (2) The utilization of the physical environment around the school as a learning resource can be pursued by conducting learning activities outside the classroom by bringing students directly to the learning resource environment. Learning by utilizing the physical environment around the school as a source of learning also leads to changes in student outcomes, there is an increase in value after students learn directly to the source and observe objects to the field.Keywords: Physical Environment, learning resources of Social Studies AbstrakPemanfaatan lingkungan sebagai sumber belajar dalam proses belajar mengajar IPS di sekolah sangat penting, karena lingkungan sangat kaya informasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan: (1) kondisi lingkungan fisik di sekitar SMP Negeri 3 Jorong Kabupaten Tanah Laut; (2) pemanfaatan lingkungan fisik di sekitar sekolah sebagai sumber belajar IPS siswa SMP Negeri 3 Jorong Kabupaten Tanah Laut. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Sumber data diperoleh dari informan, gambar, foto, dokumen, catatan lapangan serta tulisan-tulisan. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan observasi langsung, wawancara mendalam, dan dokumentasi. Guna memperoleh validitas data menggunakan triangulasi data/sumber dan triagulasi metode. Teknik analisis yang digunakan yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Di sekitar sekolah SMP Negeri 3 Jorong terdapat berbagai macam sumber belajar yang dapat dimanfaatkan untuk kegiatan belajar mengajar. Beberapa tempat atau kondisi lingkungan fisik di sekitar SMP Negeri 3 Jorong yang bisa digali dan dimanfaatkan untuk dijadikan sebagai sumber belajar IPS antara lain lahan pertanian/sawah, lahan perkebunan sawit, lahan perkebunan karet, kantor desa karang rejo, poskesdes. (2) Pemanfaatan lingkungan fisik di sekitar sekolah sebagai sumber belajar dapat ditempuh dengan cara melakukan kegiatan pembelajaran di luar kelas dengan membawa peserta didik langsung ke lingkungan sumber belajar. Pembelajaran dengan memanfaatkan lingkungan fisik di sekitar sekolah sebagai sumber belajar juga membawa perubahan terhadap hasil yang dicapai siswa, ada peningkatan nilai setelah siswa belajar langsung ke sumbernya dan mengamati obyek ke lapangan.Kata Kunci: Lingkungan fisik, dan sumber belajar IPS

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