A Forest of Dreams
Capitalism, Conservation, and Indigenous Rights in the Philippines
$169.75
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipelago’s remaining Indigenous communities. Since then, these communities have become increasingly embroiled in resource politics and many have found that claiming their rights does as much to facilitate their dispossession as it does to prevent it.
In A Forest of Dreams, Noah Theriau…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780824899509 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0824899504 |
| Author: | Noah Theriault |
| Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Imprint: | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Noah Theriault’s A Forest of Dreams is an eloquent and sensitive account of his work with the Palawan people of the Philippines over two decades. A historically-informed ethnography about the paradoxes of indigeneity, conservation, and extractive capitalism, it takes seriously the onto-cosmological politics of the Palawan to include animals, plants, and spirits as agents in their own right. This book about how the Palawan negotiate all of these international forces while pursuing their own dreams at home merits reading by anthropologists and all those interested in the future of Indigenous rights.” - Scott Simon, University of Ottawa
Noah Theriault
Noah Theriault is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University.
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