{"product_id":"sensing-others-9781496235466","title":"Sensing Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSensing 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 of the good and the strange in relation to these Others challenges essentialized notions of cultural and species difference and the separateness of ethical worlds.    Drawing on meticulous, long-term ethnographic research with Batek people, Alice Rudge argues that as people seek to make habitable a constantly changing landscape, what counts as Otherness is always under negotiation. Anthropology's traditional dictum to make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange creates a binary between the familiar and the Other, often encapsulating Indigenous lives as the archetypal Other to the modern worldview. Yet living well amid precarity involves constantly negotiating Otherness's ambivalences, as people, plants, animals, and places can all become familiar, strange, or both. Sensing Others reveals that when looking from the boundary, what counts as Otherness is impossible to pin down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSensing Others\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the richest, most textured, and most innovative ethnographies I have read in recent years. Through her acute and deeply informed account, Alice Rudge compellingly conveys the complex nexus of emotion, experience, identity, and ethics entangled in Batek life and its scholarly representation. This is a remarkable book, a signal accomplishment, and a likely classic.”—Donald Brenneis, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLaw and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai‘i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In her exceptionally high-quality fieldwork, Alice Rudge noticed and understood unusually subtle levels of Batek life practice in the midst of profound change, and she conveys those understandings eloquently here. \u003ci\u003eSensing Others\u003c\/i\u003e is a fundamental contribution to anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, linguistic anthropology, hunter-gatherer studies, and environmental studies, and to global popular understanding of Indigenous rainforest people in the Anthropocene.”—Rupert Stasch, author of \u003ci\u003eSociety of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: Friends and Strangers\u003cbr\u003e Author’s Note\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Living with Others\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Closeness and Loss, Longing as Archive\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 1. Story of the \u003ci\u003epompakoh \u003c\/i\u003eBird, in Which a Father Becomes a Bird\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Alone and Together, Wrongdoing and the Ethical Self\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 2. Story of the Batak Cannibal, in Which a Woman Escapes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Like and Different, Hidden Likenesses in Everyday Speech\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 3. Story of the \u003ci\u003ecaŋkãy \u003c\/i\u003eFrog, in Which Frogs and Leaves Become Batek\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Known and Unknown, Sensing the Intentions of Others\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 4. Story of a \u003ci\u003esarɔt \u003c\/i\u003eWho Flicks His “Fruit”\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Attachment and Detachment, Sharing with Strange Others\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 5. Story of Hiding from Batak in the Treetops\u003cbr\u003e Coda: The Politics of Being Alone\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Grammar\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: Selected Lexicon\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409244758359,"sku":"9781496235466","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496235466.jpg?v=1730506121","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sensing-others-9781496235466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}