Table oof ccontents
Letter from the Chair....................................................................................M. Taghi Farvar.................... 3
Taking history and culture seriously...............................................................The editors.......................... 4
SSeeccttiioonn II:: CCoonnsseerrvvaattiioonn aass ccuullttuurraall aanndd ppoolliittiiccaall pprraaccttiiccee
Conservation as cultural and political practice................................................ Ken MacDonald.................... 6
Protection de la nature et identités culturelles en France................................Christian Barthod................. 18
The tiger, the pangolin, and the myths of Panthera tigris amoyensis– past,
present, and future......................................................................................
Chris
Coggins............................... 26The historical origins of modern forestry policy in Bolivia................................
Kirsten Anderrson &
Diego Pacheco..................... 40Colonialism, hunting and the invention of “poaching” in the 19thand 20th
Centuries.....................................................................................................Bill Adams........................... 50
Conservation of dryland biodiversity by mobile indigenous people—
the case of the Gabbra of Northern Kenya.....................................................
Chachu Ganya, Guyo Haro &
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend..... 61Continuidad y discontinuidad culturales en el manejo ambiental de tres
diferentes ecosistemas en Colombia..............................................................
Juan Mayr &
Guillermo Rodríguez............. 72History, culture and participatory marine conservation in a Brazilian fishing
community...................................................................................................Patricia Pinto da Silva........... 86
The Bawarias of India: from hunters to “green gards”?.................................. Bahar Dutt......................... 98
La Somma: forest management, new “ruralness” and agro-tourism in the
uplands of Umbria (Central Italy)..................................................................Patrizio Warren.................... 106
Ideas, history and continuity in the practice of power— the case of wildlife
management in Zambia................................................................................ Ilyssa Manspeizer................ 116
The cultural politics of conservation encounters in the Maya biosphere
reserve, Guatemala......................................................................................Juanita Sundberg................. 125
Tensions and paradoxes in the management of transboundary protected
areas.......................................................................................................... William Wolmer.................... 137
SSeeccttiioonn IIII:: AA ““ccuullttuurraall aapppprrooaacchh”” ttoo ccoonnsseerrvvaattiioonn??
Why history and culture matter—a case study from the Virgin Islands
National Park...............................................................................................
Crystal Fortwangler & Marc
Stern................................... 148La propriété collective et la mobilité pastorale en tant qu’alliées de la conser-
vation—expériences et politiques innovatrices au Ferlo (Sénégal)....................
Adama Ly &
Maryam Niamir Fuller........... 162History, Culture, and Conservation: in search of more informed guesses about
whether “community-based conservation” has a chance to work.....................Jim Igoe.............................. 174
Development Dilemmas and Administrative Ambiguities: Terracing and Land
Use Planning Committees in North Pare, Tanzania..........................................Michael Sheridan................. 186