Culture and the Question of Rights (eBook, PDF)

Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
Redaktion: Charles Zerner, Zerner

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822383819
• Artikelnr.: 54933879

Autorenporträt

Charles Zerner is Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Moving Translations: Poetics, Performance, and Property in
Indonesia and Malaysia / Charles Zerner 1
Cultivating the Wild: Honey-Hunting and Forest Management in Southeast
Kilimantan / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 24
Sounding the Makassar Strait: The Poetics and Politics of an Indonesian
Marine Environment / Charles Zerner 56
Singers of the Landscape: Song, History, and Property Rights in the
Malaysian Rainforest / Marina Roseman 109
Writing for Their Lives: Bentian Dayak Authors and Indonesian Development
Discourse / Stephanie Gorson Fried 142
Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Property Zones,
Resource Access, and Environmental Change in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso
184
Reflections: Toward New Conceptions of Rights / Donald Brenneis 219
Afterword. By Land and By Sea: Reflections on Claims and Communities in the
Malay Archipelago / Jane Monnig Atkinson 235
Works Cited 249
List of Contributors 275
Index 277