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A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things and the Natural Fringes of
Qing Rule
Jonathan Schlesinger
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), 288 pp. ISBN: 9780804799966Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union:
New Dimensions of Research
Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström, eds.
(Stockholm: Elanders, 2017), 283 pp., paperback $27.00. ISBN: 978-91-7601-777-7.Kosmologiia i praktika sibirskogo shamanizma
Elena V. Nam
(Tomsk: Tomskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2017), 296 pp. ISBN:
978-5-7511-2521-9.Kul'tura i resursy. Opyt etnologicheskogo obsledovaniia sovremennogo
polozheniia narodov Severnogo Sakhalina
Dmitrii Funk, ed.
(Moscow: "Demos," 2015), 272 pp. ISBN 978-5-9904710-6-1.Maritime Hunting Culture of Chukotka: Traditions and Modern Practices
Igor Krupnik and Rachel Mason, eds.
(Anchorage, AK: National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program,
2016), 343 pp. ISBN: 9780990725251.
Litsom k moriu: Pamiati Liudmily Bogoslovskoi
Igor Krupnik, ed.
(Moscow: Moskva, 2016), 647 pp. ISBN 9785600013650.T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia
and the Russian Far East
Sharon Hudgins
(Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2018), 448 pp. ISBN: 9781574417142.Bij de Joekagieren. Het oudste toendravolk van Noord-Oost Siberië /
Life with the Yukaghir: Northeast Siberia's Oldest Tundra People
Cecilia Odé
(Lias, Uitgeverij: Verschijningsjass, 2018), 240 pp., €29.95 (paperback). ISBN:
978-90-8803-099-4.

The success of long-term sustainable management of natural resources depends on local people's support. Assessing local people's attitudes, taking into account their needs, and respecting their opinions should become a management priority. In India, in the last 20 years, community needs and aspirations in forest management were handled through Joint Forest Management with varying degrees of success. Recently, the Forest Rights Act (2006) was passed to recognize and vest forest rights in forest dwelling communities. This major policy development is still in implementation, but little is known about how this devolution process will affect people's attitudes toward forests. In this paper, we analyze associations between attitudes toward state controlled forests (Reserved Forests) and (i) awareness about the Forest Right Act, (ii) attitudes toward the State Forest Department, and (iii) participation in forest management groups of mostly tribal forest dwellers in the district of Kodagu (Karnataka). We collected information with a structured questionnaire among 247 villagers living under three different land tenure and management regimes: (1) private coffee plantations, (2) Reserved Forest, and (3) National Park. The results of the multivariate analyses show that people are more likely to appreciate Reserved Forests if they have more knowledge about the Forest Rights Act and if they have positive attitudes toward the State Forest Department. A sobering result in our sample is that participation in formal forest management groups is negatively associated to attitudes toward Reserved Forests, suggesting the Joint Forest Management model doesn't necessarily help the transition from coercion to consent. Increasing local people awareness about their rights and improving their relations with the formal forest stewards remain priorities for sustainable forest management to emerge in India.