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Land's End - Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Hardcover)
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Land's End - Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Hardcover)
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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.
The book challenges complacent, modernization narratives promoted
by development agencies that assume inefficient farmers who lose
out in the shift to high-value export crops can find jobs
elsewhere. Decades of uneven and often jobless growth in Indonesia
meant that for newly landless highlanders, land's end was a dead
end. The book also has implications for social movement activists,
who seldom attend to instances where enclosure is initiated by
farmers rather than coerced by the state or agribusiness
corporations. Li's attention to the historical, cultural, and
ecological dimensions of this conjuncture demonstrates the power of
the ethnographic method and its relevance to theory and practice
today.
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