Publications

Producing Human Life Or Protecting Wildlife? People, Park, and Space on Siberut Island, Indonesia

Darmanto & Koen Meyers, 2024, “Producing Human Life Or Protecting Wildlife? People, Park, and Space on Siberut Island, Indonesia”, Suomen Antropologi | Volume 48, issue 3, 2024 access online here >>

Eating, sharing, and mutuality of being among the mentawai on Siberut Island, Indonesia

Darmanto, 2024, “Eating, sharing, and mutuality of being among the mentawai on Siberut Island, Indonesia”,

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Without Fire: Turning Forests into Agroforests on Siberut, Indonesia.

Darmanto and Persoon, G.  2024. “Without Fire: Turning Forests into Agroforests on Siberut, Indonesia.“ In Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific, Malcolm Cairns (ed), 200-225. London:  Routledge and CABI Publishing.

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The Real Tsunami: Indigenous Survivors Living Between Old and New Settlements After the 2010 Mentawai Disaster

Darmanto and Rafliana, I. 2023. “The Real Tsunami: Indigenous Survivors Living Between Old and New Settlements After the 2010 Mentawai Disaster.” In Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim: Placemaking in displacement, Liz Maly and Shu-mei Huang (eds). 167-198. Singapore: Routledge.

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Rice Ambiguity and the Taste of Modernity in Siberut Island.

Darmanto. 2023. “Rice Ambiguity and the Taste of Modernity in Siberut Island.” The Journal of Southeast Asian  Studies, 54 (1): 64-88:

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Good to Produce: Food, Gardening, and Valued Persons in Contemporary Mentawai Society

Darmanto. 2022. “Good to Produce: Food, Gardening, and Valued Persons in Contemporary Mentawai Society, Indonesia.” Indonesia and Malay World, 50 (148): 289-31.

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Good to Produce, Good to Share: Food, Hunger and Social Values in a Contemporary Mentawaian Community

Darmanto. 2020. Good to Produce, Good to Share: Food, Hunger and Social Values in a Contemporary Mentawaian Community, Indonesia. Leiden: Leiden University.

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Environmental Crises, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Political Ecology: A Review Essay

Darmanto. “Environmental Crises, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Political Ecology: A Review Essay”Wacana, 15 (30): 165-182.

Berebut Hutan Siberut: Orang Mentawai, Kekuasaan dan Politik  Ekologi [Contested Terrains: The Political Ecology of Siberut Rain Forest]

Darmanto & Setyowati. A. B. 2012. Berebut Hutan Siberut: Orang Mentawai, Kekuasaan dan Politik  Ekologi [Contested Terrains: The Political Ecology of Siberut Rain Forest]. Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia.

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