Culture and the Question of Rights
Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2003
304 pages
978-0-8223-8381-9 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of ethnographic studies into the nature of power, language, and cultural politics within the context of Southeast Asian environments.
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Charles Zerner is Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
Content
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Moving Translations: Poetics, Performance, and Property in Indonesia and Malaysia / Charles Zerner 1
Cultivating the Wild: Honey-Hunting and Forest Management in Southeast Kilimantan / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 24
Sounding the Makassar Strait: The Poetics and Politics of an Indonesian Marine Environment / Charles Zerner 56
Singers of the Landscape: Song, History, and Property Rights in the Malaysian Rainforest / Marina Roseman 109
Writing for Their Lives: Bentian Dayak Authors and Indonesian Development Discourse / Stephanie Gorson Fried 142
Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Property Zones, Resource Access, and Environmental Change in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 184
Reflections: Toward New Conceptions of Rights / Donald Brenneis 219
Afterword. By Land and By Sea: Reflections on Claims and Communities in the Malay Archipelago / Jane Monnig Atkinson 235
Works Cited 249
List of Contributors 275
Index 277
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Moving Translations: Poetics, Performance, and Property in Indonesia and Malaysia / Charles Zerner 1
Cultivating the Wild: Honey-Hunting and Forest Management in Southeast Kilimantan / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 24
Sounding the Makassar Strait: The Poetics and Politics of an Indonesian Marine Environment / Charles Zerner 56
Singers of the Landscape: Song, History, and Property Rights in the Malaysian Rainforest / Marina Roseman 109
Writing for Their Lives: Bentian Dayak Authors and Indonesian Development Discourse / Stephanie Gorson Fried 142
Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Property Zones, Resource Access, and Environmental Change in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 184
Reflections: Toward New Conceptions of Rights / Donald Brenneis 219
Afterword. By Land and By Sea: Reflections on Claims and Communities in the Malay Archipelago / Jane Monnig Atkinson 235
Works Cited 249
List of Contributors 275
Index 277
