About the Series  vii

Acknowledgments  ix

Preface  xi

Introduction: Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment / Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle  1

Section I. The Boundary Between Natural and Social Reproduction  

1. The Wild and the Tame in Protected Areas Management in Peninsular Malaysia / Lye Tuck-Po  37

2. The Implications of Plantation Agriculture for Biodiversity in Peninsular Malaysia: A Historical Analysis / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells  62

3. Rubber Kills the Land and Saves the Community: An Undisciplined Commodity / Michael R. Dove  91

Section II. Community Rights Discourses through Time  

4. Adat Argument and Discursive Power: Land Tenure Struggles in Krui, Indonesia / Upik Djalins  123

5. Redefining Native Customary Law: Struggles over Property Rights between Native Peoples and Colonial Rulers in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950–1996 / Amity A. Doolittle  151

6. The Social Life of Boundaries: Competing Territorial Claims and Conservation Planning in the Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, West Kalimantan, Indonesia / Emily E. Harwell  180

7. Interpreting "Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Resource Use": The Case of the T'Boli in the Southern Philippines / Levita Duhaylungsod  216

Section III. Reconstructing and Representing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge  

8. The Historical Demography of Resource Use in a Swidden Community in West Kalimantan / Endah Sulistyawati  239

9. The Ecological Implications of Central versus Local Governance: The Contest over Integrated Pest Management in Indonesia / Yunita T. Winarto  276

Bibliography  303

Contributors  351

Index  355

Michael R. Dove

Percy E. Sajise

Amity A. Doolittle

Lye Tuck-Po

Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells

Upik Djalins

Emily E. Harwell

Levita Duhaylungsod

Endah Sulistyawati

Yunita T. Winarto

“Most chapters in this volume provide an empirically rich and theoretically grounded account of the complexity of national and local environmental politics at the interface of forest and agriculture in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and will be welcomed by many scholars, students and decision-makers in the field of natural resource conservation.”—Andreas Neef, Southeast Asian Studies

“This dense and rich book reminds readers that conservation is difficult to reduce to predefined concepts of social agency or environmental quality. The obvious readers will be scholars of political ecology, development and anthropology. But its message should be communicated more broadly: simplistic approaches to conservation lack accuracy; and transferable lessons can be drawn from contextual work.”—Tim Forsyth, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

“Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
presents an extensive and well researched critique on conservation strategies
in Southeast Asia. ... [It] is a commendable book for students and managers of conservation and sustainable development programs.”—Henry Chan, Asian Anthropologist

“Beyond the Sacred Forest offers an admirable interdisciplinary and collaborative effort focussed on conservation in the Southeast Asian region. The overarching argument is that attention to social, political, historical and economic issues is critical to understanding outcomes from conservation initiatives. . . . Overall, this collection will stand on the strength of its impressive interdisciplinarity and collaborative effort, which will offer a solid resource and research model for scholars of the region as well as for resource managers and development practitioners.”—Sarinda Singh, Anthropological Forum

“Most chapters in this volume provide an empirically rich and theoretically grounded account of the complexity of national and local environmental politics at the interface of forest and agriculture in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and will be welcomed by many scholars, students and decision-makers in the field of natural resource conservation.”—Andreas Neef, Southeast Asian Studies

“This dense and rich book reminds readers that conservation is difficult to reduce to predefined concepts of social agency or environmental quality. The obvious readers will be scholars of political ecology, development and anthropology. But its message should be communicated more broadly: simplistic approaches to conservation lack accuracy; and transferable lessons can be drawn from contextual work.”—Tim Forsyth, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

“Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
presents an extensive and well researched critique on conservation strategies
in Southeast Asia. ... [It] is a commendable book for students and managers of conservation and sustainable development programs.”—Henry Chan, Asian Anthropologist

“Beyond the Sacred Forest offers an admirable interdisciplinary and collaborative effort focussed on conservation in the Southeast Asian region. The overarching argument is that attention to social, political, historical and economic issues is critical to understanding outcomes from conservation initiatives. . . . Overall, this collection will stand on the strength of its impressive interdisciplinarity and collaborative effort, which will offer a solid resource and research model for scholars of the region as well as for resource managers and development practitioners.”—Sarinda Singh, Anthropological Forum

“Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia is a sophisticated and thoughtful engagement with fundamental conceptual pillars of modern-day conservation politics. Based on sustained and systematic field-based studies enriched by deep theoretical development, this book’s ideas will educate students and decision makers alike as they grapple with the meanings of progress, justice, and sustainability as shaped via the complex interplay among nature, power, and culture.”—Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

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