On the Edge of the Banda Zone: Past and Present in the Social Organization of a Moluccan Trading Network 9780824844608
The impact of the Indonesian spice trade on global and, more particularly, European history has been widely acknowledged
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Table of contents :
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
