Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

by Tania Murray Li

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357054
• ISBN13: 9780822357056
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"