TY - MGZN
KW - Chhau dance
KW - community
KW - Conservation
KW - Ecological application
KW - Ecology
KW - Ecosystem ecology
KW - ecosystem services
KW - Environmental geography
KW - Environmental management
KW - Environmental management tool
KW - environmental policy
KW - Environmental protection
KW - Environmental science
KW - Field of archeology
KW - geography
KW - Human habitat
KW - Mask
KW - Natural resource management
KW - Natural resources
KW - Purulia
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Tourism
KW - West Bengal
AU - R. Ghosh
AU - S. Bhattacharya
AU - J. Mukherjee
AU - A. Chatterjee
AB - Multiple forms of folk traditions in India demonstrate how nature, culture, and livelihoods are deeply intertwined with each other, blurring concrete boundaries that separate material from nonmaterial benefits and tangible from intangible heritage. Shedding light on the Chhau dancing community and mask makers of Charida—the renowned Chhau mask village of West Bengal, we explore how nature-culture interactions and their dynamic relationship have shaped the use of local ecologies in mask production and probe into the involvement of actors and networks that shape the Chhau dance form. By deeply engrossing into ethnographic realms of the field and embracing a wide range of methods from focus group discussions, key informant interviews, participatory rural appraisal, and participatory appraisal of natural resources, transect walk and oral history, we unwrap nonlinearities influencing nature-culture-livelihood interface and lay out the larger rationale behind the significance of place-based narratives to apprise overarching theories and frameworks on ecological sustainability
C2 - Indigenous People and Nat.: Insights for Soc., Ecological, and Technological Sustainability
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-323-91603-5.00011-7
LA - English
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Indigenous People and Nat.: Insights for Soc., Ecological, and Technological Sustainability
N2 - Multiple forms of folk traditions in India demonstrate how nature, culture, and livelihoods are deeply intertwined with each other, blurring concrete boundaries that separate material from nonmaterial benefits and tangible from intangible heritage. Shedding light on the Chhau dancing community and mask makers of Charida—the renowned Chhau mask village of West Bengal, we explore how nature-culture interactions and their dynamic relationship have shaped the use of local ecologies in mask production and probe into the involvement of actors and networks that shape the Chhau dance form. By deeply engrossing into ethnographic realms of the field and embracing a wide range of methods from focus group discussions, key informant interviews, participatory rural appraisal, and participatory appraisal of natural resources, transect walk and oral history, we unwrap nonlinearities influencing nature-culture-livelihood interface and lay out the larger rationale behind the significance of place-based narratives to apprise overarching theories and frameworks on ecological sustainability
PB - Elsevier
PY - 2022
SN - 9780323916035 (ISBN); 9780323916042 (ISBN)
SP - 353
EP - 380
TI - Folk dance and local ecologies: ethnographic explorations on the Chhau mask makers of Charida, West Bengal
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85138025595&doi=10.1016%2fB978-0-323-91603-5.00011-7&partnerID=40&md5=6407d6a6be0e4ca5eb95c2dd266e3b72
ER -