The banana tree at the gate : a history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo /
Michael R. Dove.
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
- xix, 332 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Yale agrarian studies series .
- Yale agrarian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-316) and indexes.
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.