The banana tree at the gate / Michael Dove.
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 in...
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[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Study of Smallholder Commodity Producers
- Part II. The Challenges of the Colonial Trade in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
- Chapter 2. A Native Court's Warning about Involvement in Commodity Production
- Chapter 3. The Antecedent to Cultivating Exotic Rubber
- Part III. Coping with the Contradictions of Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 4. The Construction of Rubber Knowledge in Southeast Asia
- Chapter 5. Depression-Era Responses to Smallholder Rubber Development by Tribesmen and Governments
- Part IV. The Indigenous Resolution of the Subsistence/Market Tension
- Chapter 6. The Dual Economy of Cultivating Rubber and Rice
- Chapter 7. Living Rubber, Dead Land, and Persisting Systems
- Part V. The Conundrum of Resource Wealth versus Political Power
- Chapter 8. Material Wealth and Political Powerlessness
- Chapter 9. Plantations and Representations in Indonesia
- Part VI. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Smallholders and Globalization
- Notes
- References
- General Index
- Index of Plant Names.