Jerry K. Jacka is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction  1

Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier  21

1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics  25

2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization  49

Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place  77

3. Land: Yu  81

4. People: Wandakali  105

5. Spirits: Yama  129

Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses  157

6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses  157

7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life  199

Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land  229

Notes  241

References  249

Index  269