‘Songs of the lake’: Understanding cultural expressions of nature through dwindling folk-songs and mythologies in Bengaluru

Sen, Amrita and Nagendra, Harini (2023) ‘Songs of the lake’: Understanding cultural expressions of nature through dwindling folk-songs and mythologies in Bengaluru. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. pp. 1-20.

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Abstract

Culture-specific knowledge plays an important role in shaping environmental conservation. Yet we lack a holistic and contemporary understanding of how such local cultural systems interface (d) with ecologies, especially in the fast-growing cities of the global South which face profound environmental challenges. In this paper, we explore nature-based cultural systems embedded in folk songs to understand situated social-ecological histories of human-inhabited peri-urban landscapes in the city of Bengaluru in South India.

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Sen, Amrita and Nagendra, Harini

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