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On the edge of the Banda zone : past and present in the social organization of a Moluccan trading network / Roy Ellen.
LIBRA DS632.M65 E45 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellen, R. F., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moluccans--Commerce--Indonesia--Ceram Island.
- Moluccans.
- Moluccans--Fishing--Indonesia--Ceram Island.
- Moluccans--Indonesia--Ceram Island--Social life and customs.
- Nutmeg industry--Indonesia--Ceram Island--History.
- Nutmeg industry.
- Spice trade--Indonesia--Ceram Island--History.
- Spice trade.
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- Fishing.
- Commerce.
- Ceram Island (Indonesia)--Politics and government.
- Ceram Island (Indonesia).
- Ceram Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Indonesia--Ceram Island.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The impact of the Indonesian spice trade on global and, more particularly, European history has been widely acknowledged. Although more recent studies have gone beyond the preoccupation with the colonial relationship to provide a more "Asia-centric" view. On the Edge of the Banda Zone is the first to focus an anthropological lens on the dynamics of trade in a specific area: that incorporating the Seram Laut and Gorom archipelagoes (and the adjacent mainland) of east Seram, in the Moluccas. Drawing on the author's field-work as well as archival and secondary sources, this ambitious, eclectic volume demonstrates the enduring continuities in the local system as it comes into contact with the changing outside world. It illuminates how barter, ecological and ethnic divisions of labor, exchange patterns, and the organization of trade between the peoples of the New Guinea coast and east Seram, help us make sense of long-term cycles and trends.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Archipelagic southeast Seram
- A conjectured history : the origins of a trading zone
- The political economy of a Conradian space
- Southeast Seram and the Papuas
- Boats and boat handling
- The structure of contemporary trading networks
- The social instruments of trade in late twentieth-century Seram
- Traders, migration and ethnicity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824826760
- OCLC:
- 51505430
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