For the Sake of Forests and Gods – Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philipp…

For the Sake of Forests and GodsGoverning Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands\nAuthor(s): Wolfram H. Dressler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University\nISBN-13: 9781501779251, 978-1501779251\nSynopsis\nFor the Sake of Forests and Gods documents the consequences of nonstate actors impinging on the existence of Indigenous peoples in the remote highlands of Palawan Island, the Philippines. Nimble, focused, and well-funded, religious and environmental organizations increasingly assume governmental authority over the lives and livelihoods of the Pala'wan people within their ancestral territories.\n\n Wolfram H. Dressler traces these actors' history and contemporary practices, revealing how they bypass the state to govern the less governed. In the highlands, environmental NGOs valorize customary objects and practices to suppress swidden and support forest conservation, while evangelical.