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Living Between Juniper and Palm: Nature, Culture, and Power in the Himalayas.

This 390 page monograph consolidates twenty years of observing environmental policy impact in a Himalayan setting. It has involved transcribing, translating and analysing oral environmental knowledge in an unwritten Tibeto-Burman language, and documenting changes in national and global conservation policy paradigms over this period. The research and analysis process was particularly complex, requiring the integration and analysis of a massive amount of ethnographic data, a large body of comparative literature on human-environmental relationships, plus historical research in regional archives of ‘grey literature’ to chart the role of conservation in the ethnic politics of under-development in an Asian state formation.