Paul Greenough is Professor in the Departments of History and Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944 and the editor of “Global Immunization and Culture: Compliance and Resistance in Large-Scale Public Health Campaigns,” a special issue of Social Science and Medicine. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place and coeditor of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture.
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
