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Tania Murray Li - Land´s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier - 9780822356943 - V9780822356943
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Land´s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

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Description for Land´s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families. Yet the winners and losers in this transition were not strangers—they were kin and neighbors. Li's richly peopled account takes the reader into the highlanders' world, exploring the dilemmas they faced as sharp inequalities emerged among them.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356943
SKU
V9780822356943
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Tania Murray Li
Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia. She is the author of The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics, also published by Duke University Press; coauthor of Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia; and editor ... Read more

Reviews for Land´s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
“Despite the depressing story that it has to tell, Land’s End is a real pleasure to read, a tour de force without a trace of bombast, a model of ethnographic writing for new generations of students and agrarian researchers to follow.”
Ben White
Development and Change
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