{"product_id":"sensing-others-alice-rudge-9781496235466","title":"Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest","description":"\u003ci\u003eSensing Others\u003c\/i\u003e explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected national park and oil palm plantation. As their ancestral forests disappear around them, Batek people nevertheless attempt to live well among the strange Others they now encounter: out-of-place animals and plants, traders, tourists, poachers, and forest guards. How Batek people voice their experiences of the good and the strange in relation to these Others challenges essentialized notions of cultural and species difference and the separateness of ethical worlds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on meticulous, long-term ethnographic research with Batek people, Alice Rudge argues that as people seek to make habitable a constantly changing landscape, what counts as Otherness is always under negotiation. Anthropology's traditional dictum to \"make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange\" creates a binary between the familiar and the Other, often encapsulating Indigenous lives as the archetypal Other to the \"modern\" worldview. Yet living well amid precarity involves constantly negotiating Otherness's ambivalences, as people, plants, animals, and places can all become familiar, strange, or both. \u003ci\u003eSensing Others\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that when looking from the boundary, what counts as Otherness is impossible to pin down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Rudge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496235460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496235466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Alice Rudge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44122911768831,"sku":"9781496235466","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b56f57a5-df97-48b2-98d6-c508ad802550.jpg?v=1687427825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sensing-others-alice-rudge-9781496235466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}