The Banana Tree at the Gate: A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo - Couverture rigide

Dove, Michael R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 030015321X ISBN 13 : 9780300153217

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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 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 Borneos 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. Doves 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Dove is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Professor of Anthropology at Yale University; and Curator of Anthropology at the Yale Peabody Museum.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 030015321X
• ISBN 13: 9780300153217
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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