Trade, Traders and Trading in Rural Java

by Jennifer Alexander

In small towns throughout Java, thousands of traders gather twice each week for a few hours of frenetic buying and selling. This important phenomenon of the Javanese rural economy is here examined from various perspectives: as a material exchange of commodities; a social system of traders, credit suppliers, and other market participants; and a structured flow of information that can be analyzed through recent anthropological and economic theories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195888650
• ISBN13: 9780195888652
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"