Lisa Gezon received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and is currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia. She has ongoing research projects in Madagascar and in the Georgia Piedmont on the politics of environmental resource management, and continues her research interests in issues of political ecology in the United States and abroad.

[This] book is an important contribution to Malagasy studies and the dynamics of natural resource management, particularly in relation to conservation. The study is a must-read for everyone interested in these issues, precisely because it offers ethnography and anaylsis which lay bare the intrinsic foundations of the local politics dealt with and engaged in by international conservation agencies.

• 1 Chapter 1: Negotiated Landscapes2 PART I: Place in Perspective3 Chapter 2: The Global in the Local: Protected Area Management4 Chapter 3: Antankarana: Ethnic Identity, Royal Authority, and History5 Chapter 4: Patterns of Production6 Chapter 5: Conjunctures of Authority7 Part II: Resource Use as Socio-Political Process8 Chapter 6: The Missing Cattle: Shifting Relationships between Agriculture and Herding9 Chapter 7: Ritual and the Legitimacy of Kings: Rights to Forests and Graves10 Chapter 8: Making Place: Conservation and the Limits of Royal Authority11 Chapter 9: Managed Landscapes

Lisa Gezon received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and is currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia. She has ongoing research projects in Madagascar and in the Georgia Piedmont on the politics of environmental resource management, and continues her research interests in issues of political ecology in the United States and abroad.

[This] book is an important contribution to Malagasy studies and the dynamics of natural resource management, particularly in relation to conservation. The study is a must-read for everyone interested in these issues, precisely because it offers ethnography and anaylsis which lay bare the intrinsic foundations of the local politics dealt with and engaged in by international conservation agencies.

• 1 Chapter 1: Negotiated Landscapes2 PART I: Place in Perspective3 Chapter 2: The Global in the Local: Protected Area Management4 Chapter 3: Antankarana: Ethnic Identity, Royal Authority, and History5 Chapter 4: Patterns of Production6 Chapter 5: Conjunctures of Authority7 Part II: Resource Use as Socio-Political Process8 Chapter 6: The Missing Cattle: Shifting Relationships between Agriculture and Herding9 Chapter 7: Ritual and the Legitimacy of Kings: Rights to Forests and Graves10 Chapter 8: Making Place: Conservation and the Limits of Royal Authority11 Chapter 9: Managed Landscapes