Darmanto. 2020. Good to Produce, Good to Share: Food, Hunger and Social Values in a Contemporary Mentawaian Community, Indonesia. Leiden: Leiden University.
Darmanto and Setyowati. A. B. 2012. Berebut Hutan Siberut: Orang Mentawai, Kekuasaan dan Politik Ekologi (Contested Terrains: The Political Ecology of Siberut Rain Forest). Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia.
McCarthy, J., Haug, M, Noteboom, G., Astuti, R., Darmanto, Semedi, P., Siscawati, M., and Kutanegara, P. M. (in-review). Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change: Envisioning Rural Climate Politics from Below. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
Darmanto and Koen Meyers. 2024. Producing Human or Protecting Wildlife? People, Park, and Space on Siberut Island, Indonesia. Suomen, Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 48 (3): 4-30. https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.129520.
Darmanto. 2024. Eating, Sharing, and Mutuality of Being Among the Mentawai on Siberut Island, Indonesia, Food, Culture & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2359773.
Darmanto. 2023. Rice and the Taste of Modernity in Siberut Island. The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 54 (1): 64-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463423000188.
Darmanto. 2022. Good to Produce: Food, Gardening, and Valued Persons in Contemporary Mentawai Society, Indonesia. Indonesia and Malay World, 50 (148): 289-312.https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2089479.
Darmanto. 2014. Environmental Crises, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Political Ecology: A Review Essay, Wacana, 15 (30): 165-182.
Darmanto. 2012. Global Conservation, National Park and Local Practices in Siberut Island, West Sumatra. Journal of Forestry Science, 1 (7): 51-67.
Darmanto. 2011. Penataan Ruang, Penciptaan Subjek, dan Penerapan Kekuasaan di Pulau Siberut 1969-1998 [Space, Subject and Power in Siberut Island 1969-1998]. Wacana, 12 (26):89-124
Darmanto. 2006. Krisis Klaim Kepemilikan Hutan di Pulau Siberut [Contested Claims Over Forest on Siberut Island]. Wacana, 6 (20): 157–182.
Darmanto and G. Persoon. (in-press). Crocodiles Are Watching: Spirits, Social Order, and Ecological Transformation on Siberut Island, Indonesia. In Water Powers: Sacred Animals of the Asia-Pacific, edited by Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, and Sonja Åman Manoa: University Hawai’i Press.
Darmanto & Gerard Persoon. 2024. Without Forest: Turning Forests into Agroforests on Siberut, Indonesia. In Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific edited by Malcolm Cairns, pp. 200-225. London: Routledge and CABI Publishing.
Darmanto & Irina Rafliana. 2023. The Real Tsunami: Indigenous Survivors Living Between Old and New Settlements After the 2010 Mentawai Disaster. In Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim: Placemaking in displacement, edited by Liz Maly and Shu-mei Huang, pp.167-199. Singapore: Routledge.
Darmanto. 2009. Pandangan Tentang Hutan, Tempat Keramat dan Perubahan Sosial di Pulau Siberut, Sumatra Barat (Knowledge of forest, sacred site, and social transformation in Siberut Island, West Sumatra). In Situs Keramat Alami: Peran Budaya dalam Konservasi Keanekaragaman Hayati (Natural Sacred Site: The Role of Culture in Biodiversity Conservation), edited by H. Y. Soedjito, Purwanto, dan E. Sukara, pp.130-164. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor.
Darmanto and Lubabun Niam. 2025. Antropologi dan Konservasi: Panduan Mengintegrasikan Ilmu Sosial ke Konservasi Orangutans di Sumatra Utara (Anthropology and Conservation: A Guideline to Integrate Social Science into Orangutans Conservation in North Sumatra). Medan: Yayasan Tahukah and SOS.
Darmanto and Lubabun Niam. 2025. Panduan Pendampingan Masyarakat dalam Konservasi: (Community Engagement Toolbox for Conservation). Medan: Yayasan Tahukah and SOS.
Darmanto and Mahfud Ikhwan. 2022. Dari Belakang Gawang (From the Back of the Goal Post). Jakarta: KPG.
Darmanto. 2016. Tamasya Bola: Gairah, Cinta dan Luka Dalam Sepakbola (Footbal Excursions: Passion, Love and Pain in Football). Yogyakarta: Mojok.
Kuasa Eksklusi: Dilema Pertanahan di Asia Tenggara. 2021. Yogyakarta: Insist Press and The Indonesian Institute of National Land (Indonesia translation of Derek Hall, Paul Hirsch, and Tania Li. Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2011).