Banana tree at the gate : A history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo.
Dove, Michael R.
Banana tree at the gate : A history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo. /Michael R. Dove. - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2011. - xix, 332p. : 24cm.
"The Hikayat Banjar", a 17th-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. This title employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system.
9780300153217
International Book Distributors : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Global Markets in Borneo
History of Marginal People
Social Science
306.3 DOV
Banana tree at the gate : A history of marginal peoples and global markets in Borneo. /Michael R. Dove. - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2011. - xix, 332p. : 24cm.
"The Hikayat Banjar", a 17th-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. This title employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system.
9780300153217
International Book Distributors : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Global Markets in Borneo
History of Marginal People
Social Science
306.3 DOV
