Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, The Categorical Impulse (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.

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Preface

List of Contributors



Chapter 1. Introduction

Roy Ellen



Chapter 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Niño, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo

Rajindra K. Puri



Chapter 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization

Rini Soemarwoto



Chapter 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java

Johan Iskandar



Chaptert 5. Innovation, ‘Hybrid’ Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten

Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen



Chapter 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980–2003

Hermien L. Soselisa



Chapter 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi

Simon Platten



Chapter 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan

Dario Novellino



Chapter 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu: a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor

Laura S. Metzner Yoder



Chapter 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java

Michael R. Dove



Index