Transforming the Indonesian Uplands

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 Indonesian state.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Li, Tania

Product details

• Authors: Tania Li
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.1999
• EAN: 9789057024009
• ISBN: 978-90-5702-400-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 800 g
• Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Indonesia, Development Studies, Tropical Agriculture, Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques