J. Peter Brosius is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Charles Zerner is the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and co-director of the Environmental Studies/Science, Technology and Society Colloquium Series.

This collection of original essays powerfully demonstrates the vital role communities can play in conserving nature and resources; it also clearly articulates the dangers community actors face in wresting a place at the negotiating table. Based on research in more than twelve countries, the volume provides a feast of real world insights into the transnational movement called community-based conservation. It is the starting point for anyone interested in the shifting landscape of debates on conservation.

• 1 Introduction2 Part 1: Mobilizations and Models3 A. Institutional Mandates4 Chapter 1: Dances Around the Fire: Conservation Organizations and Community-Based Natural Resource Management5 Chapter 2: Participatory Democracy in Natural Resource Management: A "Columbus' Egg"?6 Chapter 3: Building Models of Community-Based Natural Resource Management: A Personal Narrative7 B. Defining Community in National and Transnational Contexts8 Chapter 4: Congruent Objectives, Competing Interests and Strategic Compromise: Concept and Process in the Evolution of Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE Programme9 Chapter 5: Of Diffusion and Context: The Bubbling Up of Community-BasedResource Management in Mozambique10 Chapter 6: Model, Panacea, or Exception?: Contextualizing CAMPFIRE and Related Programs in Africa11 Chapter 7: What We Need is a Community Bambi: The Perils and Possibilities of Powerful Symbols12 C. Empowerment or Coercion?13 Chapter 8: Community, Forestry and Conditionality in the Gambia14 Chapter 9: Can David and Goliath Have a Happy Marriage: The Machiguenga People and the Camisea Gas Project in the Peruvian Amazon15 Chapter 10: Social Movements, Community-Based Natural Resource Management, and the Struggle for Democracy: Experiences from Indonesia16 Part 2: Stealing the Master's Tools: Mapping and Law in Community-Based Natural Resource Management17 A. Mapping against Power18 Chapter 11: Maps, Power and the Defense of Territory: The Upper Mazaruni Land Claim in Guyana19 Chapter 12: The Ye'kuana Mapping Project20 Chapter 13: Maps as Power-Tools: Locating "Communities" in Space or Situating People and Ecologies in Place?21 Chapter 14: Mapping as Tool for Community Organizing Against Power: A Moluccas Experience22 B. Legal Strategies for the Disenfranchised23 Chapter 15: Concepts and Strategies for Promoting Legal Recognition of Community-Based Property Rights: Insights from the Philippines and Other Nations24 Chapter 16: Engaging Simplifications: Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Market Processes, and State Agendas in Upland Southeast Asia25 Chapter 17: Advocacy as Translation: Notes on the Philippine Experience26 INDEX27 ABOUT THE AUTHORS