Sophie Chao | In the shadow of the palms. More-than-human becomings in West Papua, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 336.
Sophie Chao’s In the shadow of the palms is a brave, compelling piece of ethnographic work, cleverly structured and delightful in its elegant yet accessible prose, offering a new, powerful take on the longstanding issue of agribusiness expansion in Indonesia.Centrally, the book is an exploration of...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Sophie Chao’s In the shadow of the palms is a brave, compelling piece of ethnographic work, cleverly structured and delightful in its elegant yet accessible prose, offering a new, powerful take on the longstanding issue of agribusiness expansion in Indonesia.Centrally, the book is an exploration of the many, unsettling ways in which the lifeworld of the Upper Bian Marind people is becoming – in the words of Chao’s “companions” – abu-abu. The Upper Bian Marind are an Indigenous Papuan group r... |
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