Catherine Allerton

Potent Landscapes: Cl (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) Catherine Allerton

Potent Landscapes is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behavior, and emotions. The book situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the larger contexts of diverse human-environment interactions as well as adat revival in postcolonial Indonesia. Although it focuses on social life in one region of eastern Indonesia, the work engages with broader theoretical discussions of landscape, travel, materiality, cultural politics, kinship, and animism. Potent Landscapes analyzes the power of a collective landscape shaped both by the Indonesian state's development policies and by responses to religious change.