The banana tree at the gate : a history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo /

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The Hikayat Banjar, a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. Michael Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dove, Michael, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Marginality, Social > Borneo > History.
Markets > Social aspects > Borneo > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Marginality, Social.
Markets > Social aspects.
Borneo.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • A native court's warning about involvement in commodity production
  • The antecedent to cultivating exotic rubber: gathering native forest rubbers
  • The construction of rubber knowledge in Southeast Asia
  • Depression-era responses to smallholder rubber development by tribesmen and governments
  • The dual economy of cultivating rubber and rice
  • Living rubber, dead land, and persisting systems: Indigenous representations of sustainability
  • Material wealth and political powerlessness: a parable from South Kalimantan
  • Plantations and representations in Indonesia
  • Smallholders and globalization.

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