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Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, this text addresses the changing histories and identities of Indonesian upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state.

The result of 25 years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic description of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others.

Nuttall explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, investigating their involvement in international environmental policy-making.

This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o.

Analysing the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders, this title looks at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs. It asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

This is an ethnographically-focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural tradition continues.

A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world''s first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.