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1 online resource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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Yale agrarian studies series
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The study of smallholder commodity producers -- 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. |
| Summary |
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 between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. Dove demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. Dove's analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marginality, Social -- Borneo -- History.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Borneo. |
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History. |
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Markets -- Social aspects -- Borneo -- History.
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Markets -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dove, Michael, 1949- Banana tree at the gate. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300153217 (DLC) 2010015137 (OCoLC)601349195 |
| ISBN |
9780300153224 (electronic book) |
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0300153228 (electronic book) |
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1283096072 |
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9781283096072 |
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9780300153217 |
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030015321X |
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