""Conservation Is Our Government Now" is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being."--J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of "Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management"

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Abbreviations and Acronyms xxix
1. New Guinea-New York 1
2. Making Crater Mountain 27
3. Articulations, Histories, Development 52
4. Conservation Histories 125
5. A Land of Pure Possibility 147
6. The Practices of Conservation-as-Development 183
7. Exchanging Conservation for Development 215
Appendices 239
Notes 251
Bibliography 279
Index 311