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9780822331490

Nature in the Global South

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822331490

  • ISBN10:

    0822331497

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"This set of extraordinary case studies. . . . provides a convenient benchmark for a diagnosis of the political ecology of the past and a prognosis for its future in tropical Asia."--Leslie Sponsel, "Anthropological Quarterly"

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Introduction
1(28)
PART I Scales, Logics, and Agents
Tropical knowledges
Warwick Anderson
The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics
29(18)
Charles Zerner
Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997
47(32)
Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, with Abha Mishra, Neeraj Peter, and Pradeep J. Tharakan
A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in India
79(24)
Rural landscaping
Michael R. Dove
Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses
103(21)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures
124(46)
Ann Grodzins Gold
Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan
170(31)
PART II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns
States of nature/states in nature
Paul Greenough
Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970's South Asian Debate on Nature
201
Nancy Lee Peluso
Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control: A Look at Environmental Discourses and Politics in Indonesia
23(230)
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal
253(36)
Uneasy allies
Amita Baviskar
Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism
289(30)
J. Peter Brosius
Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign
319(28)
Susan M. Darlington
Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand
347(20)
Bibliography 367(44)
Contributors 411(2)
Index 413

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