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2014

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Li Tania Murray Li

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Duke University Press

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Date de parution

13 août 2014

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9780822376460

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English

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Drawing 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.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

13 août 2014

EAN13

9780822376460

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Land’s End

LAND’S END

tania murray li

Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

Duke University PressDurham and London 2014

Cover photograph courtesy of the author.

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Li, Tania, 1959– Land’s end : capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier / Tania Murray Li. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN9780822356943 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN9780822357056 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Land use, Rural—Indonesia. 2. Lauje (Indonesian people). 3. Capitalism—Indonesia. I. Title. HD893.L5 2014 330.9598’44—dc23 2014000757

For my mother, Anita, whose adventurous and trusting spiritenables and inspires.

Contents

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction1

Positions30

Work and Care58

Enclosure84

Capitalist Relations115

Politics, Revisited150

Conclusion178

Appendix: Dramatis Personae187

Notes 191 Bibliography 205 Index 221

Acknowledgments

The goal I had for this book, when I started writing it in 2006, was to help renew ethnographic engagement with the rural places that continue to be home to half the world’s population. Twenty years of repeat visits to one rural place gave me intimate insights into people’s lives and the dilemmas they faced during a period of farreaching change, but ﬁnding a way to tell their story was harder than I anticipated. I relied on the help of many colleagues and students who read drafts of the manuscript as it evolved, listened to me present parts of it in lectures and seminars, and gave me copious comments and excellent advice. I haven’t footnoted every idea or correction I took on board from my interlocutors, but I trust they will recognize their input. Some of them were conscripts (students from my Core Concepts in Anthropology undergraduate class in 2011), but most of them were volunteers, and I’m hugely grateful for their generosity. Donald Moore, Gavin Smith, and Ben White helped me conceptualize the project at the outset, read several drafts, discussed it at length in person and on the phone, and gently guided me away from some serious errors. I received written comments on a complete draft from Junko Asano, Henry Bernstein, Michael Eilenberg, Gaston Gordillo, Derek Hall, Kregg Hether ington, Holly High, Esther Kuhn, Christian Lund, Jerome Rousseau, Alpa Shah, Ken Wissoker, Jeremy Withers, and graduate students who organized group discussions on the manuscript: in Zurich Irina Wenk, Esther Leeman, Eva Keller, and Danilo Geiger; in Toronto Zach Anderson, Lukas Ley, and Elizabeth Lord. Henke Schulte Nordholte and Gerry Van Klinken organized a daylong book workshop atkitlvin Leiden to give me the beneﬁt of in

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