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