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Koleksi Tamadun Pahang
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| Abstract : |
| According to the Batek of Pahang, Peninsula Malaysia, if there were no people in the forest, the world would collapse. This position is tantamount to an indigenous concept of environmental guardianship. Guardianship is emergent in people's ongoing interactions with the forest. By focusing on the meanings of trees and forest, I will explore the Batek's view of their role in reproducing the forest. Their focus is not on the physical aspects of the forest but, rather, the relationship that renders that resource apparent. The disengagement of trees from everyday life—to the extent that they must be pushed from human society, specially protected in human-free parks and reserves and so on—has not yet begun for them. The problem is whether these concepts can coexist with official simplifications in resource management |
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