Welcome,
I'm Darmanto
Studying the politics, ecology, and foodways of indigenous peoples through fifteen years of fieldwork in Indonesia's outer islands.
Darmanto
Anthropologist · PhD Researcher
Human-Environment Relations
Outer Islands of Indonesia · Siberut, Mentawai
Fields:
Ecological Anthropology · Indigenous Studies · Multi-species Ethnography
Studying People, Nature & Their Entangled Lives
I am an anthropologist with a long-term interest in studying human-environment relations. Based on fieldwork conducted in the outer islands of Indonesia over the last fifteen years, I have studied the politics and poetics of nature conservation, resource extraction in the frontier zone, indigeneity as cultural politics, and how producing and sharing food generates communal values.
My current research interests revolve around climate change and indigenous foodways, multi-species ethnography, and the peculiarity of the Anthropocene.
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Climate Change & Indigenous Foodways
More than 370 million indigenous peoples worldwide living in richly biodiverse yet fragile ecosystems have suffered the impact of climate change. Disasters such as rising sea levels, droughts, floods, and typhoons affect indigenous peoples' foodways.
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Recent Scholarly Work
2025 · Co-authored
Producing Human Life Or Protecting Wildlife? People, Park, And Space On Siberut Island, Indonesia
Darmanto & Koen Meyers, 2025
2025 · Sole Author
Eating, Sharing, And Mutuality Of Being Among The Mentawai On Siberut Island, Indonesia
Darmanto, 2025
Forthcoming
Climate Change and Indigenous Foodways: A Multi-Species Perspective from the Mentawai Archipelago
Darmanto, forthcoming
Interested in Collaborating?
Open to research partnerships, speaking invitations, and academic collaborations.
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