... 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...

... and the other Rautes currently living in different parts of Nepal; their history, worldview, and the daily round of work as roving forest-dwellers; their regular diets and material culture; the types of interactions they have with the dominant society; their status in the larger Nepali society...

...Mario De Grandis Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon . By Kenneth J. Yin . New York : Peter Lang , 2023 . xxii, 174 pp. ISBN: 9781433192654 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The Dungan, a community of Chinese-speaking...

... in the morning (77), as well as many other sayings connecting bamboo to ideas of plurality, resilience, and greed. Chapter 5, somewhat like the chapters in Cultivating the Forest , then considers the many ways bamboo materials and terms figured into the affairs of the Vietnamese state, especially in early...

...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...

... importance to be Forest. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY J. A. included in the introduction. This problem can be BOOK REVIEWS 169 remedied at the completion of the work by pre- the Gods, brother. Yoke yourself to awesome auste- senting cumulative indexes to all annotations of rities, bull of the Bharatas...

...Karl L. Hutterer Rain-Forest Collectors and Traders: A Study of Resource Utilization in Modern and Ancient Malaya . By F. L. Dunn . Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Monograph No. 5 , 1975 . xii, 151 pp. Tables, Figures, Bibliography. M$20.00 Copyright ©...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Ruth-Inge Heinze 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). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Lee Friederich Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako . By Chimako Tada . Translated by Jeffrey Angles . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . xi, 163 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 When...

...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...

... today can do so without referencing Chandler's framework of the past. Of the two books here reviewed, A History of Cambodia will attract the greater following, but it is in At the Edge of the Forest that Chandler's legacy is realized: “another generation of scholars in love with Cambodia is hard...