Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013).
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Heidi Pauwels: Mobilizing Krishna’s World
Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom …
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Karine Gagné: Caring for Glaciers
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional a …
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Nico Slate: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and r …
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Dolly Kikon: Living with Oil and Coal
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on …
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Emily C. Donaldson: Working with the Ancestors
Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land use and heritage preservation. As Marquesans contin …
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Tim Forsyth & Andrew Walker: Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers
In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, an …
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Tracey Heatherington: Wild Sardinia
**Winner of the 2010 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, presented by the American Anthropological Association** Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, reli …
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David McDermott Hughes: From Enslavement to Environmentalism
From Enslavement to Environmentalism takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European …
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Edward K. Snajdr: Nature Protests
As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to und …
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J. Mark Baker: The Kuhls of Kangra
In the Kangra Valley of India’s western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems – intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels – f …
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David John Arnold: The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India …
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Amity A. Doolittle: Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia
In 1990, shortly after a Malaysian politician announced that the boundaries of Kinabalu Park, a primary tourist destination, were to be expanded to include the species-rich tropical forest known loca …
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Stephanie Karin Rupp: Forests of Belonging
Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities–Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam–in the Lobéké forest regi …
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Liza Grandia: Enclosed
This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q’eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world – repeated displacement from …
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Jeremy M. Campbell: Conjuring Property
Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Honorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Associati …
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Pamela D. McElwee: Forests Are Gold
Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam’s forests in the tumultuous twentieth century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as the country united, …
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Jason Cons: Sensitive Space
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are space …
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Charu Gupta: The Gender of Caste
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) …
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Yuka Suzuki: The Nature of Whiteness
The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the politi …
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Rebecca M. Brown: Displaying Time
From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of t …
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Mahesh Rangarajan & K. Sivaramakrishnan: Shifting Ground
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing …
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Sumit Guha: History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of …
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Sheetal Chhabria: Making the Modern Slum
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial …
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Megan A. Styles: Roses from Kenya
Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prize The potential of floriculture grows at Lake Naivasha Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and oth …
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Shafqat Hussain: The Snow Leopard and the Goat
Following the downgrading of the snow leopard’s status from “endangered” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of s …
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Jonathan Padwe: Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group surviv …
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Jeffrey A. Redding: A Secular Need
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antag …
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Daniel Tubb: Shifting Livelihoods
Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize The many dimensions of gold in a shadow economy People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the …
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Jamon Alex Halvaksz: Gardens of Gold
Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cu …
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Pika Ghosh: Making Kantha, Making Home
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened …
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James Staples: Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosm …
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Sienna R. Craig: The Ends of Kinship
For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abr …
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Will Smith: Mountains of Blame
Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palaw …
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Juned Shaikh: Outcaste Bombay
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolis Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopo …
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Alexandra Celia Kelly: Consuming Ivory
Examines the complex global impact of the ivory trade The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billia …
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Meng Zhang: Timber and Forestry in Qing China
Honorable Mention for the 2022 ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize, sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Law and History Traces the sourcing of logs that fueled early modern urbanization In …
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Mark W. Hauser: Mapping Water in Dominica
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733
Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island, ” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, …
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Nicholas Menzies: Ordering the Myriad Things
China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and pr …
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Tarini Bedi: Mumbai Taximen
Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for H …
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Alice Tilche: Adivasi Art and Activism
As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight …
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Sanderien Verstappen: New Lives in Anand
In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town o …
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Philip Hirsch & Kevin Woods: Turning Land into Capital
In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back ‚land-to-the-tiller‘ policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. This trend, marked by increased land concentrat …
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Michael B. Dwyer: Upland Geopolitics
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished ‚land-rich‘ countries in Latin Am …
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Heather Anne Swanson: Spawning Modern Fish
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology Multispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fish Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricu …
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Iftikhar Dadi: Lahore Cinema
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 …
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Faizah Zakaria: The Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Ch …
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David Geary: The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Ma …
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Amanda Thérèse Snellinger: Making New Nepal
One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal’s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based …
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Guntra A. Aistara: Organic Sovereignties
This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Cost …
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Amy Bhatt: High-Tech Housewives
Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, eve …
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Sonja Thomas: Privileged Minorities
Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and …
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Eric Huntington: Creating the Universe
Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmolog …
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Nachiket Chanchani: Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in norther …
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Sugata Ray: Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, S …
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Sidharthan Maunaguru: Marrying for a Future
The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe …
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John Stratton Hawley & Christian Lee Novetzke: Bhakti and Power
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion, ” bhakti nonetheles …
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Thomas F. Thornton: Being and Place among the Tlingit
In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska’s Tlingit Indians. Pla …
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Janet C. Sturgeon: Border Landscapes
In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among comm …
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Jinghong Zhang: Puer Tea
Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called …
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Mattias Borg Rasmussen: Andean Waterways
Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful ethnographic analysis of the …
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Nancy J. Turner: The Earth’s Blanket
This is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably. …
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Sarah R. Osterhoudt & K. Sivaramakrishnan: Sustaining Natures
Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic resear …
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Satsuki Takahashi: Fukushima Futures
A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods Both before and after the 2011 ‚Triple Disaster‘ of earthquake, tidal wave, and …
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Sumit Guha: Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in …
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