Lars Kaskija

Affiliated researcher,
Social Anthropology
Fil.Lic., Uppsala 1995.

About

Areas of interest

Indonesia, Kalimantan (Borneo); hunter-gatherer identity, economics and ecologies; environmental conservation and culture.

Current research

Teaching and tutoring

Field experience

Conducted fieldwork among the Punan of the Malinau and Tubu Rivers of East Kalimantan (1990-1992, 1997, 2000); also worked in Central Kalimantan (2002).

Publications

In press

Lars Kaskija (2011).
 Encapsulation and Solidarity in Northeast Borneo: Punan of the Malinau Area, in Gibson, T. & K. Sillander (eds.), "Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia." Monograph 60, Yale Southeast Asia Studies.

2007

Lars Kaskija (2007). 
Stuck at the bottom: Opportunity Structures and Punan Malinau Identity, in Sellato, B. & P. Sercombe (eds.), “Beyond the Green Myth. Borneo Hunter-gatherers in the Twenty-First Century." Copenhagen: NIAS Press.

2002

Lars Kaskija (2002). 
"Claiming the Forest, Punan Local Histories and Recent Developments in Bulungan, East Kalimantan." Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR.

1998

Lars Kaskija (1998). The Punan of Borneo: Cultural Fluidity and Persistency in a Forest People, in Hornborg, A. & M. Kurkiala (eds.), “Voices of the Land: Identity and Ecology in the Margins.” Lund: Lund University Press.