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