Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-238) and index.
Contents:
Geographies of borrowed time -- Overland on foot, aloft: an anatomy of the social structure -- Land and languor: on what makes good work -- Toward a new nature: rank and value in conservation bureaucracy -- Contracting space: making deals in a global hot spot -- How the dead matter: the production of heritage -- Cooked rice wages: internal contradiction and subjective experience -- Epilogue: workers of the vanishing world.
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