Alternative cultural forms of environmentalism in South and Southeast Asia.

Preface viiIntroduction / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1Part I Scales, Logics, and AgentsTropical KnowledgesThe Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics / Warwick Anderson 29Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Charles Zerner 47A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in India / Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, with Abha Mishra, Neeraj Peter, and Pradeep J. Tharakan 79Rural LandscapingForest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses / Michael R. Dove 103Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 170Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and CampaignsStates of Nature / States in NaturePathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature / Paul Greenough 201Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 231Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal / K. Sivaramakrishnan 253Uneasy AlliesTribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism / Amita Baviskar 289Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign / J. Peter Brosius 319Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 347Bibliography 367Contributors 411Index 413