Marginality, power and production / Tania Murray Li -- Maize and tobacco in upland Indonesia, 1600-1940 / Peter Boomgaard -- Culturalising the Indonesian uplands / Joel S. Kahn -- "It's not economical" / Albert Schrauwers -- Forest knowledge, forest transformation / Roy Ellen -- Becoming a tribal elder, and other green development fantasies / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Representations of the "other" by others / Michael Dove -- Nucleus and plasma / Ben White -- From home gardens to fruit gardens / Krisnawati Suryanata -- Agrarian transformations in the uplands of Langkat / Tine G. Ruiter
Summary
Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, this text addresses the changing histories and identities of Indonesian upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state
