Land`s end: Capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier
Li, Tania Murray
Land`s end: Capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier - Durham Duke University Press 2014 - xi, 225 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
rawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families.
9780822357056
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Land`s end: Capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier - Durham Duke University Press 2014 - xi, 225 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
rawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families.
9780822357056
Textual