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Nonhumans and the Paradox of the Human -- Pig-Humans and Human-Pigs: Perspectivism in Dayak Myth and Ritual -- Environmental Uncertainty and Augural Contingency -- A Non-Western Panopticon: The Yogyakarta Sultanate and Merapi Volcano -- "Bitter Shade": Signs and Things in Pakistani Agro-Forestry -- Culture, Agriculture, and Politics of Rice in Java -- Historic Parting of the Wild from the Civilized in Pakistan -- Ritual, Myth, and the Rise of "Greedy Rice" -- Weedy Signs of Intent and Error -- Seeing "Life Itself " -- Appendix: Principles of Augural Interpretation.

The contemporary field of research and policy on climate change is dominated by a presentist bias, which ignores insights from millennia of scholarly attention to the relationship between climate and society. This volume seeks to redress this bias by reprinting studies of the anthropology of climate and climate change from early 20th-century to early 21st-century Anthropology, including some classical works that have influenced anthropological thinking about climate. These studies reflect the unique contribution that Anthropology can make to the field of climate change, through study of (1) historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate perturbation and change, (2) the impact from and response to climate change at the local, community level, (3) the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories, and (4) the social dimensions of climate change science. Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level; Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change. Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology. Available as an e-text and on CourseSmart. An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies, environmental sciences, science and technology studies, history of science, and conservation and development studies.--

The Hikayat Banjar, a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. Michael Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. Dove demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. Dove's analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out

The Hikayat Banjar, a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. Michael Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the Indigenous people of Borneo and the world system. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. Dove demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. Dove's analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Units of Measurement -- INTRODUCTION -- The Study -- Theory -- Methodology -- The People -- Political structure -- Social structure -- Belief system -- Economy -- The Place -- Climatic factors -- Edaphic factors -- Biotic factors -- Summary -- CHAPTER ONE - SELECTING -- Swidden Location -- Ownership of site -- Location of site -- Character of site -- Swidden Size -- Swidden Number -- Swidden Shape -- CHAPTER TWO - SLASHING -- Technology -- Labor -- Chronology -- CHAPTER THREE - FELLING -- Technology -- Felling proper -- Redressive and alternative techniques -- Labor -- Chronology -- CHAPTER FOUR - BURNING -- Technology -- Chronology -- Success of the Burn -- Causes of success/failure -- Redressive measures -- Labor -- CHAPTER FIVE - PLANTING -- Swidden Cultigens -- Rice -- Nonrice cultigens -- Technology -- Dry rice -- Swamp rice -- Nonrice cultigens -- Labor -- Chronology -- CHAPTER SIX - WEEDING -- Extent of the Weed Problem and Weeding -- Technology -- Labor -- Chronology -- CHAPTER SEVEN - GUARDING -- Insects -- Rice Sparrows -- Animals -- Deer and pigs -- Macaques -- Rats and squirrels -- Humans -- Labor -- CHAPTER EIGHT - HARVESTING -- Technology -- Harvesting immature rice -- Harvesting mature rice -- Harvesting late maturing rice -- Processing the harvest -- Rice Yields -- Measures of yields -- Causes of variation in yields -- Labor -- Labor rate -- Household labor -- Reciprocal labor -- Wage labor -- Guest labor -- Chronology -- Main harvest phase -- Subsidiary harvest phases -- CHAPTER NINE - CARRYING -- Technology -- Labor -- Chronology -- CHAPTER TEN - HARVESTING NONRICE CULTIGENS -- Maturation -- Harvesting -- Alternative Relish Sources -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - HOUSE MAKING -- Slashing and Felling -- Burning and Planting -- Weeding -- Guarding.