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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the unequal access to and accumulation of wealth from clove resources in Minahasa, Indonesia, in the 1990s. The dissertation asks: (1) how do specific people in a community gain access to and accumulate wealth from agricultural reso…

A growing body of literature is reexamining the colonial period with an eye to understanding the ambiguity of categories of colonizer and colonized. Those persons of ambiguous status who benefited from power and success in the colonial era but were left behind in decolonization …