344 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state. It is an engaged study, which fills important analytical gaps and... Read more
Chapter 1 Marginality, Power and Production: Analysing Upland Transformations, Tania MurrayLi; Chapter 2 Maize and Tobacco in Upland Indonesia, 1600—1940, PeterBoomgaard; Chapter 3 Culturalising the Indonesian Uplands, Joel S.Kahn; Chapter 4 “Its not Economical”: The Market Roots of a Moral Economy in Highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, AlbertSchrauwers; Chapter 5 Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram*, RoyEllen; Chapter 6 Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies, Anna LowenhauptTsing; Chapter 7 Representations of the “Other” by Others: The Ethnographic Challenge Posed by Planters' Views of Peasants in Indonesia, Michael R.Dove; Chapter 8 ::, BenWhite; Chapter 9 From Homegardens to Fruit Gardens Resource Stabilization and Rural Differentiation in Upland Java, KrisnawatiSuryanata; Chapter 10 Agrarian Transformations in the Uplands of Langkat: Survival of Independent Karo Batak Rubber Smallholders, Tine G.Ruiter;
Biography
Li, Tania
'An important overall theme of the book is the ways in which political, social and economic marginality is constituted, expressed and sustained....Overall the quality of the contributions to the volume is high; Li's editorial introduction and her first chapter on marginality, power and production are especially useful....Several of the chapters...provide excellent historical and ethnographic detail.' - Social Anthropology
