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Jerry K. Jacka is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier 21 1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics 25 2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization 49 Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place 77 3. Land: Yu 81 4. People: Wandakali 105 5. Spirits: Yama 129 Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life 199 Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land 229 Notes 241 References 249 Index 269