Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: Marginality, Power and Production (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)

346 Pages·1999·2.57 MB·English

by  Tania Li

Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
Studies in Environmental Anthropology
edited by Roy Ellen, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Marginality, Power and Production
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Transforming the
Indonesian Uplands
Marginality, Power and
Production
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Tania Murray Li
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Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: marginality, power
and production.—(Studies in environmental anthropology; v. 4)
1. Rural development—Indonesian 2. Indonesia—Economic
conditions—1945–3. Indonesia—Politics and government–
1966–
I. Li, Tania, 1959–
333.7′3′09598
ISBN 0-203-98612-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN: 90-5702-401-2 (softcover)
ISSN: 1025-5869
FRONT COVER: KARO BATAK GROUP IN KAMPONG LAU TEPU, C. 1885
(G.R.LAMBERT,COLLECTION ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE AMSTERDAM).
CONTENTS
List of Maps, Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction xiii
Tania Murray Li
Chapter 1 Marginality, Power and Production: Analysing 1
Upland Transformations
Tania Murray Li
Section I Constituting the Uplands: Economies and Traditions
Chapter 2 Maize and Tobacco in Upland Indonesia, 1600– 47
1940
Peter Boomgaard
Chapter 3 Culturalising the Indonesian Uplands 81
Joel S.Kahn
Chapter 4 “It’s not Economical”: The Market Roots of a Moral 107
Economy in Highland Sulawesi
Albert Schrauwers
Section II Representing the Uplands: Traditional Knowledge and
Environments Reconsidered
Chapter 5 Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political 131
Contingency, Historical Ecology and the
Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram
Roy Ellen
Chapter 6 Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green 157
Development Fantasies
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
vi
Chapter 7 Representations of the “Other” by Others: The 201
Ethnographic Challenge Posed by Planters’ Views
of Peasants in Indonesia
Michael Dove
Section III Changing Agrarian Relations: Commodity Production
and State Agendas
Chapter 8 Nucleus and Plasma: Contract Farming and the 229
Exercise of Power in Upland West Java
Ben White
Chapter 9 From Home Gardens to Fruit Gardens: Resource 257
Stabilisation and Rural Differentiation in Upland
Java
Krisnawati Suryanata
Chapter 10 Agrarian Transformations in the Uplands of 281
Langkat: Survival of Independent Karo Batak
Rubber Smallholders
Tine G.Ruiter
Index 313
LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND TABLES
MAPS
Frontispiece Indonesia xii
Chapter 5
Map 1 The Eastern Part of the Amahai Sub-district, Seram 133
Chapter 6
Map 1 Mangkiling Village Territory 189
Map 2 Mangkiling Village 190
Map 3 Mangkiling Village 194
FIGURES
Chapter 4
Figure 1 Household Boundaries 117
Figure 2 Household Development Cycles 122
Chapter 5
Figure 1 Videotape of Komisi Soumori 147
Chapter 9
Figure 1 Distribution of Upland Fields in Tumpakpuri 269
viii
Chapter 10
Figure 1 Karo Batak Group in Kampong Lau Tepu 291
TABLES
Chapter 6
Table 1 Excerpt from “Inventory Lost of Flora”, Yayasan Borneo 184
Chapter 9
Table 1 Annual Growth Rates of Fruit Production in East Java 260
Table 2 Share-tenacy Terms After Tree Planting in Tumpakpuri 271
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Peter Boomgaard is Director of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and
Anthropology (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands and Professor of
Economics and Environmental History of Southeast Asia at the
University of Amsterdam.
Michael Dove is Professor of Social Ecology at the Yale University
School of Forestry and Environmental Science, USA.
Roy Ellen is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology,
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Joel S.Kahn, formerly at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
has recently taken up the Chair in Social Anthropology at Sussex
University, Brighton, UK.
Tania Murray Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology and Social Anthropology of Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Canada.
Tine G.Ruiter is a Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at the
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Albert Schrauwers is a Temporary Lecturer in the Department of
Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK.
Krisnawati Suryanata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Geography and Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is a Professor in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Ben White is Professor of Rural Sociology at the Institute of Social
Studies, The Hague and Professor of Social Science at the University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.