Selected Works

My Publications

Selected journal articles, book chapters, and reports by , an anthropologist of human–environment relations, drawn from over fifteen years of fieldwork on indigenous foodways, resource extraction, and nature conservation in the outer islands of Indonesia — particularly Siberut and the Mentawai Islands.

Anthropology · Mentawai · Siberut · Conservation · Climate Change · Indonesia · Multispecies Ethnography

  • Crocodiles Are Watching: Spirits, Social Order, and Ecological Transformation on Siberut Island, Indonesia

    Darmanto and Gerard Persoon. 2026. “Crocodiles Are Watching: Spirits, Social Order, and Ecological Transformation on Siberut Island, Indonesia.” In Water Powers: Sacred Animals of the Asia-Pacific, edited by Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, and Sonja Åman, 254-279. Manoa: University of Hawai’i Press.

  • “Festivity Without Feast”: Autonomy, Prosperity, Mutuality and Inequality in a Mentawai Village

    Darmanto. 2025. ““Festivity Without Feast”: Autonomy, Prosperity, Mutuality and Inequality in a Mentawai Village.” Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences.

  • Envisioning Climate Politics From Below: Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change

    Rini Astuti, Michaela Haug, John F. McCarthy, Gerben Nooteboom, Darmanto, Pujo Semedi, Mia Siscawati. 2025. “Envisioning Climate Politics From Below: Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change.”

  • Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change: Envisioning Rural Climate Politics from Below

    McCarthy, J., Haug, M, Noteboom, G., Astuti, R., Darmanto, Semedi, P., Siscawati, M., and Kutanegara, P. M. 2025. “Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change: Envisioning Rural Climate Politics from Below”. Asia Pacific Review. First View:1-13.

  • ‘Festivity Without Feast’: Autonomy, Prosperity and Inequality in a Contemporary Mentawai Village

    Darmanto. 2025. “‘Festivity Without Feast’: Autonomy, Prosperity and Inequality in a Contemporary Mentawai Village.” Special Issue: Value and Others. Antropologi Indonesia 46 (2): First View.

  • The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below

    Darmanto. 2025. “The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below.” Review of Sophie Chao’s In the Shadow of the Palm: More-than-Human Becoming in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology: 1-4.

  • Integrating Anthropology in Orangutan Conservation: A Reflection and Guidance

    Lubabun Niam and Darmanto. 2025. Menerapkan Antropologi dalam Konservasi Orangutan: Refleksi dan Panduan [Integrating Anthropology in Orangutan Conservation: A Reflection and Guidance]. Medan: TAHUKAH and Sumatran Orangutan Society.

  • Conservation Pocket Book

    Lubabun Niam and Darmanto. 2025. Buku Saku Konservasi [Conservation Pocket Book]. Medan: TAHUKAH dan Sumatran Orangutan Society.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Darmanto. 2022. “Good to Produce: Food, Gardening, and Valued Persons in Contemporary Mentawai Society, Indonesia.” Indonesia and the Malay World, 50 (148): 289–311.

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

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

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

    Darmanto. 2014. “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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My Publications

Anthropology · Mentawai · Conservation · Climate · Indonesia