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MONOGRAPH
Doolittle, A. 2005. Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo): A Century of Native Struggles over Land Rights, 1881–1996. University of Washington Press, Nature and Culture Series.

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EDITED VOLUMES
Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. 2005. Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Monograph Series, Volume 54, Yale University.
Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. In preparation. “Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment” in Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia.

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PEER REVIEWED
Doolittle, A. under review. “A Social History of Conservation and Resource Use in Sabah, Malaysia: Lost Opportunities, Future Possibilities.” Journal of Peasant Studies.
Doolittle, A. under review. “Revealing the Methods in an Interdisciplinary Research Project: Political Ecology Perspectives on Property Rights and Natural Resources Management” Environmental Management.
Doolittle A. 2004. “Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Power in Sabah, Malaysia, 1881-1996.” Modern Asian Studies. 38 (4): 821–850. [pdf]
Doolittle A. 2003. “Colliding Discourses: Western Land Laws and Native Customary Rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. February 2003. [pdf]
Doolittle, A. 2001. “‘Are They Making Fun of Us?’: The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia.” Moussons: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia 4: 75-95.
Doolittle, A. 2001 “From Village Land to ‘Native Reserve’: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, 1950-1996.” Human Ecology Vol 29 (1): 69-98. [pdf]
Doolittle, A. 1998. “Historical and Contemporary Views of Legal Pluralism in Sabah, Malaysia” Forum Commentary in Common Property Resource Digest, No. 47, December 1998.

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BOOK CHAPTERS
Doolittle, A. 2006 ”Resources, Ideologies, and Nationalism: The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia“ In Development Brokers and Translators, David Mosse and Davis Lewis, eds. Bloomfield, Ct.: Kumarian Press.
Doolittle, A. 2006 “Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia 1881-1996” in Environmental Change in Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, Wadley, R., ed, Leiden: KTLV Press.
Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. 2005. “Introduction: The Problem of Conserving Nature on Cultural Landscapes” in Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. Monograph Series, no. 54. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
Doolittle, A. In preparation. “Re-defining Native Customary Law: Struggles over Property Rights Between Native Peoples and Colonial Rulers in Sabah, Malaysia” in Dove, Sajise and Doolittle, eds. Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia.
Dove, M. and A. Doolittle. In preparation. “Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment” in Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia
Doolittle, A. 1990. “Latah Behavior by Females Among the Rungus of Sabah,” in V. Sutlive, ed. Female and Male in Borneo: Contributions and Challenges to Gender Studies, Borneo Research Council Monograph Series, Vol. 1.

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ENCYLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY, SAGE PRESS
Author of 13 entries original essays for this encyclopedia: Roy Rappaport, Vandana Shiva, Ramachandra Guha, Ester Boserup, land ethic, land degradation, Theodore Roosevelt’s Conservation Administration, balance of nature, fortress conservation, biopiracy, takings, usufruct rights, myth of the noble savage.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Doolittle, A. forthcoming. Review of “The Complex Forest: Communities, Uncertainty, & Adaptive Collaborative Management,” Carol Colfer and “The Equitable Forest: Diversity, Community & Resource Management”, Carol Colfer, ed. Economic Anthropology.
Doolittle, A. 2005. Review of “In Search of the Rainforest,” Candace Slater, ed. American Anthropologist, June 10(7).
Doolittle, A. 2002. Review of “Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives,” Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes and Alan Bicker, eds. American Ethnologist 29 (1): 180-181.
Doolittle, A. 2000. Review of “The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance,” Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren, eds. Journal of Asian Studies 59 (3): 800-801.

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