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Documenting and Evaluating Traditional Conservation Practice between the Ethnic Groups in Four Districts of Greater Mymensingh Region

Title: Documenting and Evaluating Traditional Conservation Practice between the Ethnic Groups in Four Districts of Greater Mymensingh Region

Master's Thesis , 2006 , 55 Pages , Grade: 01

Autor:in: Bibhuti Bhushan Mitra (Author)

Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology
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Totem and taboo play a major role in biodiversity conservation. Totem usually means the animal or plant that is preserved or conserved by the members of a particular social group. Taboo means the prohibition of an act or the use of an object or word under pain of punishment. Originally it is a Polynesian word. Generally it is used as sacred or dangerous, unclean and forbidden meanings. The paper presents some conservation oriented totem and taboos from four districts of greater Mymensingh region of Bangladesh which are strictly involve in the life of ethnic communities. There are 11 species of animals and 6 species of plants have been recorded in this paper in the context of taboo. This paper presents also that 24 species of animals and 27 species of plants are related to the conservation oriented totem in the research area.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. General
1.2. Review of literature
1.3. Aims and objectives

2. STUDY AREA
2.1. Bangladesh
2.2. Study site

3. METHOD

4. RESULTS
4.1. Overall Documentation
4.2. Documentation of animal use for the conservation purpose by different ethnic communities
4.3. Documentation of plant use for the conservation purpose by different ethnic communities
4.4. Documented dominant animal species in different sacred groves
4.5. Documented plant species in different sacred groves

5. DISCUSSION

6. RECOMMENDATION

7. REFERENCES

APPENDIX

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Title
Documenting and Evaluating Traditional Conservation Practice between the Ethnic Groups in Four Districts of Greater Mymensingh Region
College
Jahangirnagar University
Grade
01
Author
Bibhuti Bhushan Mitra (Author)
Publication Year
2006
Pages
55
Catalog Number
V365664
ISBN (eBook)
9783668489080
ISBN (Book)
9783668489097
Language
English
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Bibhuti Bhushan Mitra (Author), 2006, Documenting and Evaluating Traditional Conservation Practice between the Ethnic Groups in Four Districts of Greater Mymensingh Region, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/365664
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