In western scholarship, Africa s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural relics from a static precolonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this relic theory is inadequate for understanding current social and ecological dynamics. "African Sacred Groves "challenges dominant views of these landscape features by redefining the subject matter beyond the compelling yet uninformative term sacred. The term ethnoforests incorporates the environmental, social-political, and symbolic...
In western scholarship, Africa s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural ...
