"In its contents and methods, this captivating case study has far broader relevance beyond its regional focus."
(Choice) "While historians have produced studies of individual polities in the region before and after the imposition of imperial rule, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is the first to situate this transition in a much larger environmental and religious perspective, thus providing a vibrant reevaluation of approaches to the Southeast Asian past."
(Journal of Southeast Asian Studies) "A valuable scholarly contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of Asian studies, Southeast Asian studies, environmental studies, history, environmental history, and postcolonial studies."
(Southeast Asian Studies) "Adroitly crisscrossing different scales, temporalities, and intellectual fields, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is an exemplary piece of interdisciplinary scholarship...Expansive in scope, generous yet incisive in execution, it is a book that scholars and activists interested in the intersection of Indigenous religions, environment, economy, and colonialism can read with great profit."
(Indigenous Religious Traditions)
