Darmanto · Anthropologist on Human–Environment
Peer-reviewed manuscripts, articles, edited volumes, and non-academic writings
18 publications
Peer Reviewed Manuscript
2020
Good to Produce, Good to Share: Food, Hunger and Social Values in a Contemporary Mentawaian Community, Indonesia
Darmanto.
Leiden: Leiden University.
2012
Berebut Hutan Siberut: Orang Mentawai, Kekuasaan dan Politik Ekologi (Contested Terrains: The Political Ecology of Siberut Rain Forest)
Darmanto and Setyowati. A. B.
Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
in‑review
Rural Indonesia in the Shadow of Climate Change: Envisioning Rural Climate Politics from Below in review
McCarthy, J., Haug, M, Noteboom, G., Astuti, R., Darmanto, Semedi, P., Siscawati, M., and Kutanegara, P. M.
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
2024
Producing Human or Protecting Wildlife? People, Park, and Space on Siberut Island, Indonesia
Darmanto and Koen Meyers.
Suomen, Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 48 (3): 4–30.
2024
Eating, Sharing, and Mutuality of Being Among the Mentawai on Siberut Island, Indonesia
Darmanto.
Food, Culture & Society.
2023
Rice and the Taste of Modernity in Siberut Island
Darmanto.
The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 54 (1): 64–88.
2022
Good to Produce: Food, Gardening, and Valued Persons in Contemporary Mentawai Society, Indonesia
Darmanto.
Indonesia and Malay World, 50 (148): 289–312.
2014
Environmental Crises, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Political Ecology: A Review Essay
Darmanto.
Wacana, 15 (30): 165–182.
2012
Global Conservation, National Park and Local Practices in Siberut Island, West Sumatra
Darmanto.
Journal of Forestry Science, 1 (7): 51–67.
2011
Penataan Ruang, Penciptaan Subjek, dan Penerapan Kekuasaan di Pulau Siberut 1969–1998 [Space, Subject and Power in Siberut Island 1969–1998]
Darmanto.
Wacana, 12 (26): 89–124.
2006
Krisis Klaim Kepemilikan Hutan di Pulau Siberut [Contested Claims Over Forest on Siberut Island]
Darmanto.
Wacana, 6 (20): 157–182.
Peer Reviewed Edited Volumes
in‑press
Crocodiles Are Watching: Spirits, Social Order, and Ecological Transformation on Siberut Island, Indonesia in press
Darmanto and G. Persoon.
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.
2024
Without Forest: Turning Forests into Agroforests on Siberut, Indonesia
Darmanto & Gerard Persoon.
In Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific edited by Malcolm Cairns, pp. 200–225. London: Routledge and CABI Publishing.
2023
The Real Tsunami: Indigenous Survivors Living Between Old and New Settlements After the 2010 Mentawai Disaster
Darmanto & Irina Rafliana.
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.
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)
Darmanto.
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.
Non-Academic Publications
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)
Darmanto and Lubabun Niam.
Medan: Yayasan Tahukah and SOS.
2025
Panduan Pendampingan Masyarakat dalam Konservasi (Community Engagement Toolbox for Conservation)
Darmanto and Lubabun Niam.
Medan: Yayasan Tahukah and SOS.
2022
Dari Belakang Gawang (From the Back of the Goal Post)
Darmanto and Mahfud Ikhwan.
Jakarta: KPG.
2016
Tamasya Bola: Gairah, Cinta dan Luka Dalam Sepakbola (Footbal Excursions: Passion, Love and Pain in Football)
Darmanto.
Yogyakarta: Mojok.
Translation
2021
Kuasa Eksklusi: Dilema Pertanahan di Asia Tenggara
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.