The Banana Tree at the Gate: A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

by Michael R Dove (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $113.54

  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.