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On the Edge of the Banda Zone : Past and Present in the Social Organization of a Moluccan Trading Network / Roy Ellen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 36 illus., 22 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824826765
  • 9780824844608
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 380.1/41383/095985 21
LOC classification:
  • DS632.M65 E45 2003
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Spelling -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Archipelagic Southeast Seram -- 3. A Conjectured History: The Origins of a Trading Zone -- 4. The Political Economy of a Conradian Space -- 5. Southeast Seram and the Papuas -- 6. Boats and Boat Handling -- 7. The Structure of Contemporary Trading Networks -- 8. The Social Instruments of Trade in Late Twentieth-Century Seram -- 9. Traders, Migration, and Ethnicity -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: The impact of the Indonesian spice trade on global and, more particularly, European history has been widely acknowledged. Although more recent studies have gone beyond the preoccupation with the colonial relationship to provide a more "Asiacentric" view, On the Edge of the Banda Zone is the first to focus an anthropological lens on the dynamics of trade in a specific area: that incorporating the Seram Laut and Gorom archipelagoes (and the adjacent mainland) of east Seram, in the Moluccas. The point of departure for Roy Ellen's analysis is a description of trade relations in the east Seram zone between 1970 and 1990, but the wider importance of the data presented here is readily apparent: For five hundred 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. Drawing on the author's fieldwork as well as archival and secondary sources, this ambitious, 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 labor, exchange patterns, and the organization of trade between the peoples of the New Guinea coast and east Seram, help us make sense of long-term cycles and trends.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Spelling -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Archipelagic Southeast Seram -- 3. A Conjectured History: The Origins of a Trading Zone -- 4. The Political Economy of a Conradian Space -- 5. Southeast Seram and the Papuas -- 6. Boats and Boat Handling -- 7. The Structure of Contemporary Trading Networks -- 8. The Social Instruments of Trade in Late Twentieth-Century Seram -- 9. Traders, Migration, and Ethnicity -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author

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The impact of the Indonesian spice trade on global and, more particularly, European history has been widely acknowledged. Although more recent studies have gone beyond the preoccupation with the colonial relationship to provide a more "Asiacentric" view, On the Edge of the Banda Zone is the first to focus an anthropological lens on the dynamics of trade in a specific area: that incorporating the Seram Laut and Gorom archipelagoes (and the adjacent mainland) of east Seram, in the Moluccas. The point of departure for Roy Ellen's analysis is a description of trade relations in the east Seram zone between 1970 and 1990, but the wider importance of the data presented here is readily apparent: For five hundred 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. Drawing on the author's fieldwork as well as archival and secondary sources, this ambitious, 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 labor, exchange patterns, and the organization of trade between the peoples of the New Guinea coast and east Seram, help us make sense of long-term cycles and trends.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)