On the Edge of the Banda Zone: Past and Present in the Social Organization of a Moluccan Trading NetworkThe impact of the Indonesian spice trade on global and, more particularly, European history has been widely acknowledged. This study focuses an anthropological lens on the dynamics of trade in a specific area: that incorporating the Seram Laut and Gorom archipelagos (and the adjacent mainland) or east Seram, in the Moluccas. relations in the east Seram zone between 1970 and 1990, but the wider importance of the data presented here is apparent: for 500 years (and probably much longer), it has served as a corridor between Eurasia and the southwestern Pacific and played a vital role in the production and distribution of nutmeg and other high-value commodities that have for centuries had an impact on the global economy. The islands themselves are minute and fragile ecosystems, ultimately dependent on the local networks of which they are a part and on the long-distance trade that has bound them to mainland Asia and beyond. this eclectic volume demonstrates the enduring continuities in the local system as it comes into contact with the changing outside world. It illuminates how barter, ecological and ethnic divisions of labour, exchange patterns, and the organization of trade between the peoples of the New Guinea coast and eastern Seram, help us make sense of long-term cycles and trends. spice trade and an ethnography of a culturally distinctive part of Indonesia, but also forces us to rethink conventional approaches to the study of trade and the relationship between island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. |
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Περιεχόμενα
Introduction | 1 |
Archipelagic Southeast Seram | 21 |
A Conjectured History The Origins of a Trading Zone | 54 |
The Political Economy of a Conradian Space | 89 |
Southeast Seram and the Papuas | 118 |
Boats and Boat Handling | 147 |
The Structure of Contemporary Trading Networks | 175 |
The Social Instruments of Trade in Late TwentiethCentury Seram | 211 |
Traders Migration and Ethnicity | 235 |
Conclusion | 266 |
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On the Edge of the Banda Zone: Past and Present in the Social Organization ... Roy Ellen Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |
On the Edge of the Banda Zone: Past and Present in the Social Organization ... R. F. Ellen Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 330 - Roy Ellen is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.