Madurese Seafarers: Prahus, Timber and Illegality on the Margins of the Indonesian State

by Kurt Stenross

The Madurese are one of the great maritime and trading peoples of the Indonesian Archipelago. This study takes readers into the trading villages of Madura, with their remarkable traditional vessels (perahu) that were powered by sail until the late twentieth century, and examines their informal-sector economic niches, notably the cattle, salt, and timber trades and the carriage of people. The book argues that the nature of village society, the physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835557
• ISBN13: 9780824835552
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"