Zerner Culture and the Question of Rights

Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8381-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

A collection of ethnographic studies into the nature of power, language, and cultural politics within the context of Southeast Asian environments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zerner, Charles

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt

Roseman, Marina

Fried, Stephanie Gorson

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Zerner is Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.