Preface vii
Introduction / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1
Part I Scales, Logics, and Agents
Tropical Knowledges
The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics /
Warwick Anderson 29
Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands,
1856-1997 / Charles Zerner 47
A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest
Products in India / Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, with Abha Mishra,
Neeraj Peter, and Pradeep J. Tharakan 79
Rural Landscaping
Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global
Discourses / Michael R. Dove 103
Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124
Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 170
Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns
States of Nature / States in Nature
Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970s South Asian
Debate on Nature / Paul Greenough 201
Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at
Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 231
Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal / K.
Sivaramakrishnan 253
Uneasy Allies
Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism / Amita Baviskar
289
Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental
Campaign / J. Peter Brosius 319
Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical
Conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 347
Bibliography 367
Contributors 411
Index 413
