Title The banana tree at the gate : a history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo / Michael R. Dove

Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Yale agrarian studies series Yale agrarian studies. Contents The study of smallholder commodity producers -- A native court's warning about involvement in commodity production -- The antecedent to cultivating exotic rubber: gathering native forest rubbers -- The construction of rubber knowledge in Southeast Asia -- Depression-era responses to smallholder rubber development by tribesmen and governments -- The dual economy of cultivating rubber and rice -- Living rubber, dead land, and persisting systems: Indigenous representations of sustainability -- Material wealth and political powerlessness: a parable from South Kalimantan -- Plantations and representations in Indonesia -- Smallholders and globalization Summary The Hikayat Banjar, a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. Michael Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the Indigenous people of Borneo and the world system. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. Dove demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. Dove's analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Marginality, Social -- Borneo -- History Markets -- Social aspects -- Borneo -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Marginality, Social Markets -- Social aspects Borneo Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300153224 0300153228 1283096072 9781283096072

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