Karl L. Hutterer - Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

CENTER FOR SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

MICHIGAN PAPERS ON SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Editorial Board

Alton L. Becker
Karl L. Hutterer
John K. Musgrave
Peter E. Hook, Chairman

Ann Arbor, Michigan

USA

CULTURAL VALUES AND HUMAN ECOLOGY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

edited by Karl L. Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace

MICHIGAN PAPERS ON SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA CENTER FOR SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NUMBER 27

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-45711

ISBN 0-89148-039-0 (cloth)

ISBN 0-89148-040-4 (paper)

Copyright 1985

by

Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies

The University of Michigan

All rights reserved

Published with the support of the East-West Environment and Policy Institute East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 978-0-89148-039-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-89148-040-2 (paper)
ISBN 978-0-472-12829-7 (ebook)
ISBN 978-0-472-90229-3 (open access)

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

CONTENTS

Karl L. Hutterer and A. Terry Rambo

Neil L, Jamieson and George W. Lovelace.

Karl L. Hutterer

Leslie E. Sponsel

June Prill Brett

Aram A. Yengoyan

Alice G. Dewey

Roger Long.

Otto Soemarwoto

Geoffrey Benjamin

Chavivun Prachuabmoh

Ho Ton Trinh

Pei Sheng-ji

George W. Lovelace

Gerald C. Hickey

Neil L. Jamieson

In June 1983, a one-week conference on cultural values and tropical ecology was held at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Jointly sponsored by the East-West Environment and Policy Institute (EAPI), the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies of the University of Michigan, and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies of the University of Hawaii, the conference was attended by seventeen scholars from eight Asian and Pacific countries including the United States (a list of participants is appended). The meeting was the first in a planned series of jointly sponsored annual conferences dealing with issues in the human ecology of Southeast Asia.

The impetus for the conference grew out of discussions over the course of 1982 between the editors and other Research Associates and Fellows participating in EAPIs Program on Human Interactions with Tropical Ecosystems (HITE). Initiated in 1980 to encourage interdisciplinary human ecology research on problems of developing and managing natural resources in Southeast Asia, the HITE Program has worked closely with a number of younger Asian social scientists in developing such research. Most of these scholars were associated with member projects of the Southeast Asian Universities Agroecosystem Network (SUAN), a regional association of resource management research projects in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. As the extent of involvement of social scientists grew, the lack of adequate conceptual frameworks for studying human-environment interactions became increasingly evident. In particular, the poorly understood role of ideational factors (symbols, beliefs, values) in human ecology was seen as an obstacle to research.

Given the goals of the conference, it was decided to bring together participants with a wide range of cultural and academic backgrounds and professional interests, including the natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and applied fields. The resulting papers reflect this diversity. All have undergone extensive revisions by the authors and editors. In particular, the editors have tried to bring out common themes and concerns linking the various contributions, and have imposed a moderate amount of homogeneity in format to stress the unifying interests underlying the diversity of approaches. At the same time, however, the editors have tried to preserve the unique flavor and essence of the individual papers. The work of the editors notwithstanding, the final responsibility for the content of the papers rests with the respective authors.

A number of individuals and institutions were helpful in planning and executing the conferences and in bringing this volume to press. The Ford Foundation, through Dr. Tom Kessinger, provided a special grant that made the participation of Ho Ton Trinh possible. George Ellis, Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, agreed to organize a show to parallel the conference; an attractive and informative exhibit was put together by the Curator of European Art, James Jensen, and the Curator of Asian Art, Howard Link, under the title Landscapes East and West. Fannie Lee Kai, Peter Brosius, and Wilma Fujii were most helpful during the conference, and Peter also assisted in editing some of the papers. Avery Dubay and Elizabeth Figel typed multiple drafts of the manuscripts. Sheryl Bryson did copyediting, while production editing was done by Jim Hynes and Janet Opdyke. Lorinda Grimshaw managed the typesetting program on the computer. We thank all of them for their assistance.

Conference Participants

Dr. Geoffrey Benjamin

Department of Sociology

Singapore National University

Kent Ridge Campus

Singapore

Ms. June Prill Brett

Division of Social Sciences

University of the Philippines College Baguio

Baguio City

Philippines

Mr. Peter Brosius

Department of Anthropology

1054 L.S.A. Building

The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Dr. Chavivun Prachuabmoh

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Thammasat University

Bangkok, Thailand

Dr. Alice G. Dewey

Department of Anthropology

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Ms. Wilma Fujii

Research Intern

East-West Environment and Policy Institute

1777 East-West Road

Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

Dr. Gerald C. Hickey

Fellow, East-West Center

1777 East-West Road

Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

Professor Ho Ton Trinh

State Committee of Social Sciences

Hanoi

Vietnam

Dr. Karl L. Hutterer

Curator, Division of the Orient

Museum of Anthropology

The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Dr. Neil Jamieson

East-West Environment and Policy Institute

1777 East-West Road

Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

Dr. Roger Long

Department of Drama and Theatre

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Kennedy Theatre 115

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Dr. George W. Lovelace

East-West Environment and Policy Institute

1777 East-West Road

Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

Mr. Pei Sheng-ji

Director, Yunnan Institute of Tropical Botany

Academia Sinica

P.O. Box 302

Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province

China

Dr. Peter Pirie

East-West Population Institute

1777 East-West Road

Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

Dr. A. Terry Rambo

East-West Environment and Policy Institute

1777 East-West Road

Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

Dr. Otto Soemarwoto

Director, Institute of Ecology

Padjadjaran University

Jl. Sekeloa

Bandung, Indonesia

Dr. Aram Yengoyan

Department of Anthropology

1054 L.S.A. Building