Drawing upon theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting research from across the Indonesian Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state. The study, which aims to fill analytic gaps and addresses real-world concerns, exploring the uplands as components of national and global systems of meaning, power and production. It offers a significant re-assessment of concepts, processes, histories, relationships and discourses many of which are not unique either to the uplands or Indonesia.
By:
Tania Li
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Vol 4
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 248mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9789057024009
ISBN 10: 9057024004
Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 08 April 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 Marginality, Power and Production: Analysing Upland Transformations, Tania MurrayLi; Chapter 2 Maize and Tobacco in Upland Indonesia, 1600—1940, PeterBoomgaard; Chapter 3 Culturalising the Indonesian Uplands, Joel S.Kahn; Chapter 4 “Its not Economical”: The Market Roots of a Moral Economy in Highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, AlbertSchrauwers; Chapter 5 Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram*, RoyEllen; Chapter 6 Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies, Anna LowenhauptTsing; Chapter 7 Representations of the “Other” by Others: The Ethnographic Challenge Posed by Planters' Views of Peasants in Indonesia, Michael R.Dove; Chapter 8 ::, BenWhite; Chapter 9 From Homegardens to Fruit Gardens Resource Stabilization and Rural Differentiation in Upland Java, KrisnawatiSuryanata; Chapter 10 Agrarian Transformations in the Uplands of Langkat: Survival of Independent Karo Batak Rubber Smallholders, Tine G.Ruiter;
Reviews for Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
An important overall theme of the book is the ways in which political, social and economic marginality is constituted, expressed and sustained....Overall the quality of the contributions to the volume is high; Li's editorial introduction and her first chapter on marginality, power and production are especially useful....Several of the chapters...provide excellent historical and ethnographic detail.
