ISBN:
9780300153224
,
0300153228
,
1283096072
,
9781283096072
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xix, 332 pages)
,
illustrations, maps.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Sprenger, Guido, 1967 - On the edge of the sacred forest 2014
Series Statement:
Yale agrarian studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dove, Michael, 1949 - The banana tree at the gate
DDC:
306.349095983
Keywords:
Marginality, Social History
;
Borneo
;
Markets Social aspects
;
History
;
Borneo
;
Marginality, Social History
;
Markets Social aspects
;
History
;
Marginality, Social History
;
Borneo
;
Markets Social aspects
;
History
;
Borneo
;
Borneo
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Marginality, Social
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Markets ; Social aspects
;
History
;
Borneo
;
Kleinbauer
;
Agrarproduktion
;
Globalisierung
;
Geschichte 1600-2000
;
Borneo
;
Marginality, Social
;
Borneo
;
History
;
Markets
;
Social aspects
;
Borneo
;
History
;
Electronic books History
;
Borneo Südost
;
Agrarproduktion
;
Kleinbauer
;
Globalisierung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Print version record
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