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

Dove, Michael, 1949-

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011

Online Ressource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Print version record

Erscheint auch als: The banana tree at the gate / Dove, Michael (Druck-Ausgabe)

Rezensiert in: On the edge of the sacred forest : [Rezension von: Michael R.Dove,The banana tree at the gate; Michael R.Dove, Beyond the sacred forest; Sarinda Singh, Natural potency and political power] / Sprenger, Guido

978-0-300-15322-4 ; 0-300-15322-8 ; 1-283-09607-2 ; 978-1-283-09607-2

1-283-09607-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-283-09607-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-300-15321-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-300-15321-X (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-300-15321-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 707082808 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

LB 85420      Ähnliche Literatur

HN930.7.Z9

306.349095983 ; 306.3/49095983

Basisklassifikation: 15.78 (Südostasien) <Geschichte> ; 48.99 (Land- und Forstwirtschaft: Sonstiges)

bisacsh: POL038000 ; bisacsh: SOC022000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: HIS048000 ; bisacsh: POL033000 ; bisacsh: NAT010000 ; bisacsh: POL 038000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010 ; NAL: HN930.7.Z9 ; bisacsh: SOC 022000

*Borneo (Südost) ; Agrarproduktion ; Kleinbauer ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Marginality, Social -- History -- Borneo ; Markets -- Social aspects -- History -- Borneo ; Marginality, Social -- Borneo -- History ; Markets -- Social aspects -- Borneo -- History

Marginality, Social / History / Borneo ; Markets / Social aspects / History / Borneo / Borneo ; Electronic books / History ; Borneo ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Marginality, Social ; Markets ; Social aspects ; History ; Borneo ; Kleinbauer ; Agrarproduktion ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte 1600-2000 ; Marginality, Social / Borneo / History ; Markets / Social aspects / Borneo / History

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