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Histories of the Borneo environment : economic, political and social dimensions of change and continuity
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Histories of the Borneo environment : economic, political and social dimensions of change and continuity

Author: Reed L Wadley
Publisher: Leiden : KITLV Press, 2005.
Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 231
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Reed L Wadley
ISBN: 9067182540 9789067182546
OCLC Number: 63177386
Description: [vii], 315 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction, Environmental histories of Borneo / Reed L. Wadley -- Onto the coasts and into the forests : ramifications of the China trade on the ecological history of northwest Borneo, 900-1900 CE / Eric Tagliacozzo -- Forests for food, forests for trade-- between sustainability and extractivism : the economic pragmatism of traditional peoples and the trade history of northern East Kalimantan / Bernard Sellato -- Histories of conservation or exploitation? : case studies from the interior of Indonesian Borneo / Cristina Eghenter -- Commodity and environment in colonial Borneo : economic value, forest conversions and concern for conservation, 1870-1940 / Lesley Potter -- Boundaries, territory, and resource access in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1800-2000 / Reed L. Wadley -- Controlling the land : property rights and power struggles in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), 1881-1996 / Amity A. Doolittle -- 'Poison tree' and the changing vision of the Indo-Malay realm : seventeenth to twentieth centuries / Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter -- Dismantling the cultural ecosystem of the Rungus of Sabah, Malaysia : a history of how the ideology of Western institutions led to the destruction of a Bornean environment / George N. Appell -- Rice as a bridge between two symbolic economies : migration within and outside of the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Epilogue, In the eye of the beholder-- development or exploitation? : changing perceptions of the Borneo environment / Graham Saunders.
Series Title: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 231
Responsibility: edited by Reed L. Wadley.

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