| Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago Subjects: Biological diversity conservation -- Indonesia -- Togian Islands; Biological diversity conservation -- Indonesia -- Togian Islands -- Social aspects; Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature. Celia Lowe argues that biodiversity, in 1990s Indonesia, implied a particular convergence of nature, nation, science, and identity that made Indonesians' mapping of the concept distinct within transnational practices of nature conservation at the time. Celia Lowe is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. |