Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest

by Alice Rudge

Book Overview

Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected national park and oil palm plantation. As their ancestral forests disappear around them, Batek people nevertheless attempt to live well among the strange Others they now encounter: out-of-place animals and plants, traders, tourists, poachers, and forest guards. How Batek people voice their experiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496235460
• ISBN13: 9781496235466
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"