""In Search of the Rain Forest" dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves 'rain forest studies' into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends."--Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of "The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon"

About the Series vii
Acknowledgments ix
Mapping Out The Quest
In Search of the Rain Forest / Candace Slater 3
Rain Forest Icons
Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects / Candace Slater 41
Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest / Suzana Sawyer 69
The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest / Alex Greene 101
Rain Forest and Jungle
In Search of the Maya Forest / Scott Fedick 133
Spectacles of Wildness
Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves / Paul Greenough 167
Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo / Nancy Lee Peluso 204
The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger / Charles Zerner 246
Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285
Contributors 305
Index 309