Alice Rudge, an anthropology research fellow at University College London, explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest.

A co-publication between SIRD and the University of Nebraska Press, Sensing Others focuses on how the Batek people live in the borderland between Taman Negara and oil palm plantations, especially how the encroachment of outsiders—traders, tourists, poachers, and forest guards—challenges and forces a constant renegotiation their essentialised notions of ‘otherness’.

Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest is available for purchase on the Gerakbudaya site.

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Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest

Alice Rudge
SIRD / University of Nebraska Press
2024