Dove, Michael, 1949-

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.

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Marginality, Social--History.--Borneo
Markets--Social aspects--History.--Borneo

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