Collection questions ideas about the "sacred forests" of Sotheast Asia in order to dismantle the nature/culture divide and challenge existing approaches to conservation and development.

About the Series vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment / Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle 1
Section I. The Boundary Between Natural and Social Reproduction
1. The Wild and the Tame in Protected Areas Management in Peninsular Malaysia / Lye Tuck-Po 37
2. The Implications of Plantation Agriculture for Biodiversity in Peninsular Malaysia: A Historical Analysis / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells 62
3. Rubber Kills the Land and Saves the Community: An Undisciplined Commodity / Michael R. Dove 91
Section II. Community Rights Discourses through Time
4. Adat Argument and Discursive Power: Land Tenure Struggles in Krui, Indonesia / Upik Djalins 123
5. Redefining Native Customary Law: Struggles over Property Rights between Native Peoples and Colonial Rulers in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950–1996 / Amity A. Doolittle 151
6. The Social Life of Boundaries: Competing Territorial Claims and Conservation Planning in the Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, West Kalimantan, Indonesia / Emily E. Harwell 180
7. Interpreting "Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Resource Use": The Case of the T'Boli in the Southern Philippines / Levita Duhaylungsod 216
Section III. Reconstructing and Representing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
8. The Historical Demography of Resource Use in a Swidden Community in West Kalimantan / Endah Sulistyawati 239
9. The Ecological Implications of Central versus Local Governance: The Contest over Integrated Pest Management in Indonesia / Yunita T. Winarto 276
Bibliography 303
Contributors 351
Index 355
 

Michael R. Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director of the Tropical Resources Institute, and Professor of Anthropology, at Yale University.

Percy E. Sajise is an Honorary Research Fellow of Biodiversity International, an Adjunct Fellow at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Philippines), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños.

Amity A. Doolittle is a Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.