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Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780822376460
DOI
10.1515/9780822376460
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1606534 bytes)
Pages
248\239
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 14:49:05

Description

An intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders in Indonesia who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families. Tania Murray Li's richly peopled ethnography takes the reader into the highlanders' world, exploring the dilemmas they faced as sharp inequalities emerged among them.

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