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  • Making and Unmaking Frontiers in Borneo

    Interrogating Volatility in Human and More-than-Human Landscapes

    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    Based on ethnographic and archival research from inland and border regions of Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), this edited volume explores frontier-making and unmaking through the interplay of state and capitalist forces, environmental change, and human and more-than-human relations.The chapters critically examine the socio-environmental transformations associated with infrastructure development, ... Read more

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  • Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia

    Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into human–environmental relationships and ecologies, together with a set of theoretical innovations.Contextualizing ecologies in this region as pluralizing or hegemonic, conflictive or cooperative, the case studies in these chapters bring into dialogue ontological approaches, the issue of distinct worldviews and ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia

    Transforming the Margins

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Since colonial rule, the island of Java served as Indonesia’s imagined centre and prime example of development, while the Outer Islands were constructed as the state’s marginalised periphery. Recent processes of democratisation and regional autonomy, however, have significantly changed the power relations that once produced the marginality of the Outer Islands.This book explores processes of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

    Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography, it includes 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items. The fully revised and expanded ... Read more

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  • Conservation Is Our Government Now

    The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
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    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    Series series Perverse Modernities
    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

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  • Introducing Anthropology

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  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    Series series Difference Incorporated
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