The Banana Tree at the Gate: A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo

摘要: The "Hikayat Banjar," a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase root metaphor frame history relations between indigenous peoples Borneo and world system. In analyzing production trade in forest products, pepper, especially rubber, shows that involvement Borneo's commodity for global markets is ancient highly successful processes globalization began millennia ago. Dove's analysis replaces image isolated tropical community needs be helped into system with reality communities have been so competitive they had fight political elites keep being forced out.