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  • Sacred Forests of Asia

    Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation

    Edited by Chris Coggins, Bixia Chen ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia

    by Dougald J.W. O'Reilly ...
    Series series Archaeology of Southeast Asia
    Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia presents a fascinating synthesis of research on the prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, both old and new, Dougald O'Reilly provides a general picture of the events that shaped the region in ancient times, covering the rise of the Pyu civilization in Myanmar, the Mon and Dvaravati kingdoms of ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Priests and Programmers

    Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in water management links thousands of farmers together in hierarchies of productive relationships that span entire watersheds.Lansing describes the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Culture and the Question of Rights

    Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia

    by Marina Roseman, Stephanie Gorson Fried, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today

    Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

    by Robert L. Winzeler ...
    The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions. Based on the proposition that Southeast Asia is a true culture area, the book offers background information on geography, languages, prehistory and history, with a particular emphasis on the role of colonialism and the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Biodiversity Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge and practices: A Naga Perspective

    by Martemjen ...
    Conservationist has been contemptuous of Indigenous peoples and their knowledge. As such, all the modern polices, acts and laws in biodiversity conservation intends to follow a “top down” approach, where decisions to be enacted upon the local people, their land, biodiversity, forest etc are done at the top level without the local peoples consent, which ultimately leads to conflict. As such, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Nature in the Global South

    Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

    by Warwick Anderson, Charles Zerner ...
    A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

    by Lorraine Aragon, Andrew Causey, Holly High, Judith Nagata, Harold C. Conklin, Hjorleifur Jonsson, John Clammer, Christina Schwenkel, Susan Darlington, Nancy Smith-Hefner, Katharine Wiegele, Pattana Kitiarsa, Sandra Cate, Nir Avieli, Shaun Kingsley Malarney, Elizabeth Traube, Eve Zucker, Chris Lyttleton, Robert Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, Juli Edo, Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Gene Ammarell ...
    This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Protected Areas and Indigeneous Communities

    Anthropogenic Dependence & Impact on Biodiversity

    by Azra Musavi ...
    This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Places in Knots

    Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

    by Martin Saxer ...
    Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. ... Read more

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