Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Units of Measurement -- INTRODUCTION -- The Study -- Theory -- Methodology -- The People -- Political structure -- Social structure -- Belief system -- Economy -- The Place -- Climatic factors -- Edaphic factors...

The “Hikayat Banjar”, a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as “the banana tree at the gate”. Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource...

Official development discourses often differ from the everyday discussions and activities of development agents. If the former reflect an official model of development, then the latter could be said to reflect a "vernacular" model. The latter model is the focus of this analysis, taking as a case...

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of nature, culture, science,...

The purpose of this paper is to carry out an ‘emic’ analysis not of the subjects of rural development but of its agents, the development planners, to illustrate how development plans fail, why they fail, and how this might be corrected. I take as a case study a single river basin in the...

Introduction: traditional culture and development in contemporary Indonesia / Michael R. Dove -- Religion and the Wana of Sulawesi / Jane M. Atkinson -- Shamans and cadres in rural Java / Adrian S. Rienks and Purwanta Iskandar -- The "wild Punan" of Borneo / Carl L. Hoffman -- Traditional land...