Forests of Belonging

Stephanie Karin Rupp

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Bak... Lees meer

Turning Land into Capital

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War-era revolutions... Lees meer

Turning Land into Capital

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War-era revolutions... Lees meer

Conjuring Property

Jeremy M Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Honorable M... Lees meer

Tahiti Beyond the Postcard

Miriam Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences) The "Tahiti" that most people imagine - white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful wome... Lees meer

Sustaining Natures

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded... Lees meer

Caring for Glaciers

Karine Gagné

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing milita... Lees meer

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

Sumit Guha

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have thei... Lees meer

Ordering the Myriad Things

Nicholas K Menzies

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Longlisted for the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn Redwood Chin... Lees meer

Misreading the Bengal Delta

Camelia Dewan

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• An unexpected story of climate change initiatives that threaten a complex waterscape Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, ... Lees meer

Shifting Livelihoods

Daniel Tubb

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize The many dimensions of gold in a shadow economy People employ various ... Lees meer

Ecological Nationalisms

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national identi... Lees meer

Enclosed

Liza Grandia

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communit... Lees meer

China's Camel Country

Thomas White

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the countr... Lees meer

Nature Protests

Edward K Snajdr

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, poli... Lees meer

Working with the Ancestors

Emily C Donaldson

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land us... Lees meer

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers

Tim Forsyth, Andrew Walker

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, wat... Lees meer

Forests Are Gold

Pamela D McElwee

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century--from French colonialism to the recent transition to... Lees meer

Puer Tea

Jinghong Zhang

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to ... Lees meer

Caring for Glaciers

Karine Gagné

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing milita... Lees meer

China's Camel Country

Thomas White

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the countr... Lees meer

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Faizah Zakaria

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the hu... Lees meer

Property & Politics in Sabah, Malaysia

Amity A Doolittle

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In 1990, shortly after a Malaysian politician announced that the boundaries of Kinabalu Park, a primary tourist destination, were to be expanded to in... Lees meer

Enclosed

Liza Grandia

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communit... Lees meer