This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays
fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in
Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia
and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new
terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature
conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and
interpreting claims.
Calling for radical redefinitions of development and ownership and
for new understandings of the translation of culture and rights in
politically dangerous contexts--natural resource frontiers--this
volume links social injustice and the degradation of Southeast
Asian environments. Charles Zerner and his colleagues show how
geographical areas once viewed as wild and undeveloped are actually
cultural artifacts shaped by complex interactions with human
societies. Drawing on richly varied sources of evidence and
interpretation--from trance dances, court proceedings, tree
planting patterns, marine and forest rituals, erotic poems, and
codifications of customary law, "Culture and the Question of
Rights" reveals the ironies, complexities, and histories of
contemporary communities' struggles to retain their gardens,
forests, fishing territories, and graveyards. The contributors
examine how these cultural activities work to both construct and to
lay claim to nature. These essays open up new avenues for
negotiating indigenous rights against a background of violence,
proliferating markets, and global ideas of biodiversity and
threatened habitat.
"Contributors." Jane Atkinson, Don Brenneis, Stephanie Fried,
Nancy Peluso, Marina Roseman, Anna Tsing, Charles Zerner
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