Southeast Asia is renowned for birds’ nests and bird’s-nest trade, which is highly valued. The bird’s nest is dubbed as ‘White Gold’ and ‘Caviar of the East.’

This book offers knowledge of birds’ nests in various dimensions: the history in using of birds nests, the way of beliefs about birds-backed rituals within the ethnicities, and wisdom in the bird’s-nest business world: the bird’s-nest consumption and its impact on ecology and the environment, the innovations in the bird’s nest-business and the legal system related to the benefit and property of the public, private, community, and non-exclusive economic nesting resources. It also covers the trade and the relationship of ethnic groups within the state and across the country—the influence of Hong Kong’s bird’s-nest market to the bird’s-nest business in Southeast Asia.

Birds’ Nests. Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Study of Business .

Table of Contents 

Introduction 

Chapter 1 Communities and Bird’s-Nest Resources in Vietnam 

Chapter 2 Ethnic Groups and Bird’s-Nest Resources in Indonesia 

Chapter 3 Ethnic Groups and Bird’s-Nest Resources in the Federation of Malaysia

Chapter 4 Culture and Edible Birds’ Nests in the Philippines 

Chapter 5 Ethnic Groups and Bird’s-Nest Resources in Thailand 

Chapter 6 Birds’ Nests and Ethnic Groups in Hong Kong 

Endnotes 

References 

Index