Land's end

Land's end: capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier

by Li, Tania

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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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  • Full title :Land's end : capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier / Tania Murray Li.

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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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780822376460, 0822376466
  • oclc:ocn886109997
  • LC Classification:HD893
  • Dewey Decimal:330.9598

Table of Contents

1. Positions -- 2. Work and Care -- 3. Enclosure -- 4. Capitalist Relations -- 5. Politics, Revisited -- Conclusion.

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Subjects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference Capitalism Capitalism -- Indonesia Indonesia Land use, Rural Land use, Rural -- Indonesia Lauje (Indonesian people) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology Utilisation agricole du sol -- Indonésie

Writers

Li, Tania

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