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