SOUTHEAST ASIA:

SELECTED BOOKS, EMPHASIS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT*

 

Antweiler, Christoph, 2005, Southeast Asia: A Bibliography of Societies and Cultures, Lit Verlag.

Barnes, R.H., Andrew Gray, and Benedict Kingsbury, eds., 1995, Indigenous Peoples of Asia, Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies.

Broad, Robin, 1993, Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Pilippines, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Brookfield, Harold C., and Yvonne Byron, eds., 1993, South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Bruun, Ole, and Arne Kalland, eds., 1995, Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach, Richomond, UK: Curzon Press.

Burling, Robbins, 1965, Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainalnd Southeast Asia, Englewood CLiffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Callicott, J. Baird, and Roger T. Ames, eds., 1989, Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Coedes, George, 1968, The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, Honolulu, HI: East-West Center.

Conklin, Harold, 1957, Hanunoo Agriculture, Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization.

Cultural Survival, 1987, Southeast Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities, Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.

Dentan, Robert Knox, Kirk Endicott, Alberto G. Gomes, and M.B. Hooker, 1997, Malaysia and the Original People: A Case Study of the Impact of Development on Indigenous Peoples, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Donner, Wolf, 1987, Land Use and Environment in Indonesia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai`i Press.

Doolittle, Amity A., 2005, Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Dove, Michael R., ed., 1988, The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.

Dutt, Ashok, ed., 1985, Southeast Asia: Realm of Contrasts, Boulder, CO: Westview Press (Third Edition).

Einarsen, John, ed., 1995, The Sacred Mountains of Asia, Boston, MA: Shambhala.

Ellen, Roy F., 1978, Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology: An APproach to the Environmental Relations of an Eastern Indonesian Community, The Hague, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff.

Evans, Grant, ed., 1993, Asia's Cultural Mosaic: An Anthropological Introduction, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Fahn, James David, 2003, A Land On Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Formoso, Bernard, 1996, The Link with Nature and Divine Mediations in Asia, Providence, RI: Berghahn Books.

Fox, James J., 1977, Harvest of the Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Geertz, Clifford, 1963, Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Gosling, David L., 2001, Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia, New York, NY: Routledge.

Greenough, Paul R., and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds., 2003, Nature in the Global SOuth: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Gyallay-Pap, Peter, and Ruth Bottomley, eds., 1998, Towards an Environmental Ethic in Southeast Asia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Buddhist Institute. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books.

Halib, Mohammed, and Tim Huxley, 1998, An Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Hall, K.R., 1985, Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia, Boston, MA: Allen and Unwin.

Hanks, Lucien M., 1972, Rice and Man: Agricultural Ecology in Southeast Asia, Chicago, IL: Aldine-Atherton.

Headland, Thomas N., ed., 1992, The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association Special Publication No. 28.

Hemley, Robin, 2003, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hickey, Gerald Canon, 2003, Window on War: An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict, Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University.

Hill, Ronald, 2002, Southeast Asia: People, Land and Economy, New York, NY: Allen and Unwin.

Hirsch, Philip, 1993, Political Economy of the Environment in Thailand, Manila, Philippines: The Joujrnal of Contemporary Asia Publishers.

Hirsch, Philip, ed., 1997, Seeing Forests for Trees: Environment and Environmentalism in Thailand, Chaing Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books.

Hirsch, Philip, and Carol Warren, eds., 1998, The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance, New York, NY: Routledge.

Hockings, Paul, ed., 1990, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 5: East and Southeast Asia, Boston, MA: G.K. Hall.

Hurst, Philip, 1990, Rainforest Politics: Ecological Destruction in South-East Asia, London, UK: Zed Books.

Hutterer, Karl L., A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace, eds., 1985, Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn, 1998, Buddhism and Nature Conservation, Bangkok, Thailand: Thammasat University Press.

Kalland, Arne, and Gerard Persoon, eds., 1999, Environmental Movements in Asia, New York, NY: Routledge/Curzon.

Keyes, Charles F., 1987, Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation-State, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Keyes, Charles F., 1995, The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.

King, Victor T., and William P. Wilder, 2003, The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction, New York, NY: Routledge/Curzon.

Kunstadter, Peter, ed., 1967, Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Kunstadter, Peter, E. C. Chapman, and Sanga Sabharsi, eds., 1978, Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press and East-West Center.

Lansing, Stephen J., 1991, Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Leach, Edmund R., 1994, Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Katchin Social Structure, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

LeBar, Frank, eds. 1972, 1975, Ethnic Groups of Mainland Southeast Asia, New Haven, CT: HRAF, volumes 1-2..

Lye, Tuck-Po, 2004, Changing Pathways: Forest Degradation and the Batek Pathang, Malaysia, Landham, MD: Lexington Books.

Lye, Tuck-Po, Wil de Jong, and Abe Kenichi, eds., 2003, The Political Ecology of Tropical Forest in Southeast Asia: Historical Perspectives, Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press.

MacAndrews, Colin, and Chia Lin Sien, eds., 1979, Developing Economies and the Environment: The Southeast Asian Experience, Singapore: McGraw-Hill International.

Mackerras, Colin, ed., 1995, East and Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Survey, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Magallanes, Catherine, J. Irons, and Malcolm Hollick, eds., 1998, Land Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Indigenous Peoples, Environment and International Law, Bangkok, Thailand; White Lotus Press.

Marsh, James Barney, ed., 1992, Resources and Environment in Asia's Marine Sector, Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis.

Marten, Gerald G., ed., 1986, Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia: A Human Ecology Perspective, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

McNeely, Jeffrey A., and Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, 1995, Soul of the Tiger: Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.

McNeely, Jeffrey A., and Sunthad Somchevita, eds., 1996, Biodiversity in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for the Scientific Community, Bangkok, Thailand: Thailand Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, Office of Environmental Policy and Planning.

Mehden, Fred R. von, 1986, Religion and Modernization in Southeast Asia, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Morrison, Kathleen D., and Laura L. Junker, eds., 2002, Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Nance, John, 1975, The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age Peple in the Philippine Rain Forest, New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Nicholas, Colin, and Raajen Singh, eds., 1996, Indigenous Peoples of Asia: Many Peoples, One Struggle, Bangkok, Thailand: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact.

Parnwell, Michael J.G., and Raymond L. Bryant, eds., 1996, Environmental Change in South-East Asia: People, Politics, and Sustainable Development, New York, NY: Routledge.

Payne, Junaidi, 1990, Wild Malaysia: The WIldlife and Scenery of Peninsular Malaysia, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Provencher, ROnald, 1975, Mainland Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective, Pacific Palasades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co.

Puri, Rajindra K., 2006, Deadly Dances in the Bornean Rainforest: Hunting Knowledge of the Penan Benalui, The Netherlands: Kitlv Press.

Rai, Navin, 1990, Living in a lean-to: Philippine Negrito Foragers in Transition, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.

Rambo, A. Terry, Kathleen Gollogly, and Karl L. Hutterer, eds., 1988, Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Reid, Anthony, 1990, 1993, Southeast Asia in the Age of Cmmerce, 1450-1680, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2 volumes.

Rigg, Jonathan, 1994, Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, New York, NY: Routledge.

Rigg, Jonathan, 2003, Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development, New York, NY: Routledge.

Rigg, Jonathan, ed., 1995, Counting the Costs: Economic Growth and Environmental Change in Thailand, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

SarDesai, D.R., 1997, Southeast Asia: Past and Present, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Sar Desai, D.R., 1998, Vietnam, Past and Present, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Scott, James C., 1976, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Sellato, Bernard, 1994, Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest: The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai`i Press.

Sponsel, Leslie E., ed., 2000, Endangered Peoples of Southeast and East Asia: Struggles to Survive and Thrive, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Stevens, Richard L., 1993, The Trail: A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Role of Nature in the War in Viet Nam, New York, NY: Garland.

Straub, Andrea, ed., 2001, Institutions, Livelihoods and the Environment: Change and Response in Mainland Southeast Asia, Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

Sturgeon, Janet C., 2005, Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Stewart-Cox, Belind, 1995, Wild Thailand, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Swearer, Donald K., 1995, The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Swearer, Donald K., Sommai Premchit, and Phaithoon Dobkuakaew, 2004, Sacred Mountains of Northern Thailand and their Legends, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, 1993, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Tweddell, Colin E., and Linda Amy Kimball, 1985, Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Asia, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Valeri, Valerio, 2000, The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Wakin, Eric, 1992, Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Number 7.

Whitmore, T.C., 1998, An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Whitten, Tony, and Jane Whitten, 1992, Wild Indonesia: The Wildlife and Scenery of the Indonesian Archipelago, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wijeyewardene, Gehan, ed., 1990, Ethnic Groups across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Yamashita, Bosco, et al., 2004, The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia, New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

Zerner, Charles, ed., 2003, Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

 

Note: Also see bibliography of books on Thailand.