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For one month, we are able to follow an assistant forester on his daily rounds about the province of Capiz on Panay Island, as the forest was transformed from a resource and a refuge into an arena where state management practices and indigenous customary rights competed alongside those who saw trees as nothing more than a commercial enterprise.

Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.

Agnoletti and Corona provide the background on this issue.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.

[071] Kartenskizze

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/013.