About

Lye Tuck-Po is a photographer and lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. She has photographed the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia, in the course of anthropological research for over 30 years. Her research interests are in environmental knowledge and perceptions, hunter-gatherer and other mobilities, visual anthropology, and the anthropology of Malaysian indigenous peoples, especially Batek and other Orang Asli. She is currently interested in human-animal relations and ethnoprimatology and is working on the Batek's cultural and acoustic knowledge of gibbons. She is the author of Changing pathways: Forest degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia (Lexington Books, 2004). She has also worked with Penan peoples of Sarawak, Khmer and Kuay farmers in Cambodia, and a range of diverse groups in Sabah.