The "Hikayat Banjar," a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples 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 ...
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The "Hikayat Banjar," a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples 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 and that processes of globalization began millennia ago. 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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 332 p. Contains: Line drawings, black & white, Tables, black & white, Figures. Yale Agrarian Studies (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010015137 Type of material Book Personal name Dove, Michael, 1949-Main title The banana tree at the gate: a history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo / Michael R. Dove. Published/Created New Haven [Conn. ]: Yale University Press, c2011. Description xix, 332 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm. ISBN 9780300153217 (hardcover: alk. paper) 030015321X (hardcover: alk. paper) LC classification HN930.7. Z9 M37 2011 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. LC Subjects Marginality, Social--Borneo--History. Markets--Social aspects--Borneo--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-316) and indexes. Series Yale agrarian studies series Yale agrarian studies. Dewey class no. 306.3/49095983 Geographic area code a-bn---NAL class no. HN930.7. Z9 M26 2011 National bib no. GBB0A7133 National bib agency no. 015643747 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn601349195
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