000			02018 a2200217 4500
008			231221b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780822357056
082			_a330.959844 LIT
100			_aLi, Tania Murray
245			_aLand's end: capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier
260			_aDurham: _bDuke University Press, _c2014.
300			_axi, 225p.: _bill.; pbk.: _c23cm
504			_aIncludes Notes, Bibliography and Index
520			_aDrawing 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. https://www.dukeupress.edu/lands-end
650			_aGeography
650			_aAnthropology
650			_aCultural Anthropology
650			_aAsian Studies
650			_aSoutheast Asia
942			_cTD _2ddc
999			_c59639 _d59639