Publications
“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 Vierw: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.
Conservation Pocket Book
Lubabun Niam and Darmanto. 2025. Buku Saku Konservasi [Conservation Pocket Book]. Medan: TAHUKAH dan Sumatran Orangutan Society.
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.
Producing Human Life Or Protecting Wildlife? People, Park, and Space on Siberut Island, Indonesia
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
Darmanto. 2022. “Good to Produce: Food, Gardening, and Valued Persons in Contemporary Mentawai Society, Indonesia.” Indonesia and Malay World, 50 (148): 289-31.
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.
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.
“Festivity Without Feast”: Autonomy, Prosperity, Mutuality and “Festivity Without Feast”: Autonomy, Prosperity, Mutuality and Inequality in a Mentawai Village
Darmanto Darmanto
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
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