... Village Voices, Forest Choices:Joint Forest Management in India. Edited by M A R K POFFENBERGER and BETSY M C G E A N . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. xviii, 356 pp. $24.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Village Voices, Forest Choices brings together forest department officials, academics, consultants...

...Courtney Work Forest of Struggle: Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia . By Eve Monique Zucker . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xi, 233 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Set in the forested...

...Hsio-Yen Shih Tu Wan's Stone Catalogue of Cloudy Forest . By Edward H. Schafer . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1961 . 116 . Index of Chinese Names. $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 231 mal sculpture...

...Gail Fondahl Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya . Edited by Åshild Kolås and Yuanyuan Xie . New York : Berghahn , 2015 . xiv, 198 pp. ISBN: 9781782386308 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Nancy Lee Peluso; Peter Vandergeest Abstract How have national and state governments the world over come to “own” huge expanses of territory under the rubric of “national forest,” “national parks,” or “wastelands”? The two contradictory statements in the above epigraph illustrate that not all...

...Paul K. Gellert; Andiko Abstract Amid the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry finds its authority over the forested areas ( kawasan hutan ) under pressure and continues to pursue strategies to legally maintain the areas within its jurisdiction. Combining...

...Loretta E. Kim Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands . By David A. Bello . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 350 pp. ISBN: 9781107068841 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Deborah Winslow Above the Forest: A Study of Andamanese Ethnoanemology, Cosmology, and the Power of Ritual . By Vishvajit Panday . Delhi : Oxford university Press , 1993 . xxxiii, 319 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 246 THE JOURNAL...

...Conrad Totman Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia . By Peter Dauvergne . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 1997 . x, 308 pp. $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 738 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Penny Van Esterik Field, Forest and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos . By Carol J. Ireson . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1996 . xxiii, 285 pp. $60.00. Laos' Dilemmas and Options: The Challenge of Economic Transition in the 1990s . Edited by Mya Than and Joseph...

...Ross Mallick Abstract W hile boating down the ganges delta on a visit to the Reserve Forest Tiger Sanctuary, I noticed on the bank some idols overlooking the river. When I asked about their significance, it was explained that a tiger had killed and carried off a girl; these idols were meant to ward...

...Ruth-Inge Heinze BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 661 Forest Monks and the Nation State: An Anthropological and Historical Study in Northeastern Thailand. By J . L. TAYLOR. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993- xi, 377 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). J. L. Taylor consulted a wide...

...John J. Metz Forest or Farm? The Politics of Poverty and Land Hunger in Nepal . By Krishna Ghimire . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xv, 213 pp. $24.00. Economic Development and Environment: A Case Study of India . Edited by Kartik C. Roy Clement A. Tisdell and Raj...

...Chris Deegan Uncommons in the Commons: Community Initiated Forest Resource Management . By Rucha Ghate , with Alka Chaturvedi . New Delhi : Concept Publishing , 2004 . 206 pp. Rs 350 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 776 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I...

...Jill M. Belsky Forest Policy and Politics in the Philippines: The Dynamics of Participatory Conservation . Edited by Peter Utting . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development , 2000 . xiii, 237 pp. $22.00 (paper...

...Richard P. Tucker Teak and Arecanut: Colonial State, Forest and People in the Western Ghats (South India), 1800–1947 . By Marlene Buchy . Pondichery : Institut Français de Pondichery , 1996 . $18.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Nawaraj Chaulagain Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers . By Jana Fortier . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2009 . xii, 215 pp. $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This is a well...

...Robert Wessing The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas . By Valerio Valeri . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1999 . 592 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1444...

...Reed L. Wadley The Forest, Source of Life: The Kelabit of Sarawak . By Monica Janowski . British Museum Occasional Paper no. 143. London : The British Museum Press , Kuching : The Sarawak Museum , 2003 . vi , 154 pp. £25.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006...

...Nikolay Tsyrempilov In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms . By Matthew W. King . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xviii, 294 pp. ISBN: 9780231203616 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...