Since time immemorial indigenous people have engaged in legal relationships with other-
than-human-persons. These relationships are exemplified in enspirited sacred natural sites …

The 'sacred'natural sites (SNS) of indigenous societies are mostly supported by a worldview
predicated on animism and numinous spiritscapes. The spiritscape paradigm is …

Little was known, until recently, about the widespread recovery of biodiversity that has taken
place in Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) on the Tibetan Plateau since the revival of religious …

Urtyn duu is understood as one of the representative traditional folk genres most dear to
contemporary Mongolians. The song that launched Shurankhai as stars in Mongolia was …

This qualitative study examined the psychological construct of place attachment in Louisiana
and Mississippi residents [N= 6] who experienced forced relocation in 2005 due to …

In December of 2009, during my field resear, young people I met in Mongolia's capital
Ulaanbaatar (herea er UB) constantly asked me about Shurankhai, when they found out …

It has been estimated that about 25% of the Tibetan Plateau is composed of “Spiritscapes” or
vernacular sacred natural sites (VSNS) that are the abodes of numina (or gzhi bdag). The …

Since Neolithic time's “spiritscapes”, ie as gzhi bdag) have been a defining cultu in the upper
slopes of most mountains h conservation. The animistic beliefs that in response to Bon …

Since Neolithic time's “spiritscapes”, ie Sacred N as gzhi bdag) have been a defining cultural
featur in the upper slopes of most mountains have been conservation. The animistic beliefs …

For hundreds of year's numinous spiritscapes, presided over by “place gods” or gzhi bdag,
have been a defining cultural feature of Tibetan lay society, as well as being exemplars of …