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Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago

Published 1 January 2006
Celia Lowe
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TL;DR

This book discusses scientific, military, and commercial Explorations in the Togean Islands and Vicinity: 1680-1999, with a focus on the period between 1680 and 1999.

Abstract

Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xvii INTRODUCTION: Between the Human and the Wild Profusion 1 PART ONE: Diversity as Milieu 27 CHAPTER ONE: Making the Monkey 33 CHAPTER TWO: The Social Turn 53 PART TWO: Togean Cosmopolitics 75 CHAPTER THREE: Extraterrestrial Others 81 CHAPTER FOUR: On the (Bio)logics of Species and Bodies 106 PART THREE: Integrating Conservation and Development 129 CHAPTER FIVE: Fishing with Cyanide 135 CHAPTER SIX: The Sleep of Reason 154 Appendix: Scientific, Military, and Commercial Explorations in the Togean Islands and Vicinity: 1680-1999 167 Notes 171 References 181 Index 193

Keywords

Agricultural and Biological SciencesEnvironmental Science