Brosius examines how anthropological research and knowledge can be misrepresented by others to further an agenda. Furthermore, he examines the role that Western perspective plays on how indigenous cultures are perceived. To exemplify this, Brosius focuses on a book, Penan: Voice for the Borneo Rainforest of ethnobotanist Wade Davis and environmental activist Thom Henley, which cites and misrepresents Brosius’s research on the Penan people of Malaysia. Henley and Davis have indeed visited Penan and stayed with Eastern and nomadic Penan communities, along with many other environmental activists who were able to sneak into the area in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, when environmental issues in the area were a hot topic, but Brosius presumes that they may have merely been present and not necessarily communicated, pointing to reports of many western visitors who were unable communicated due to language barriers. Davis and Henley failed to accurately represent the Penan people, or even differentiate from Western and Eastern Penan, and craft their rhetoric to push their agenda. Brosius identifies two main strategies that may be generalized from this case: connecting the people with the forest that they wish to protect, and elevating their knowledge to the level of sacred wisdom that is in danger of being lost. The article focuses on three examples from the Davis and Henley text, which are the misrepresentations of the Penan concept of molong (a type of resource sharing), local land knowledge, and local plant knowledge. I think that this article brings up great points about how there exists a certain accepted narrative of indigenous traditions within Western culture. We tend to envision indigenous cultures as being somehow more spiritual and more connected with nature, with great and ancient wisdom, when this is not necessarily the case. This is a popular narrative that many are inclined or even desire to believe in, and others may hijack it to further an agenda, whether consciously or unconsciously. Thus, it is important to recognize our own biases.