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

Despite some (mainly historical) description of local political structures and several brief case studies of individual traders, the main 'actors' tend to be settlement populations rather than people; environmental imperatives and economic logic, rather than cultural or social life, loom l...

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Published in:Australian journal of anthropology 2006, Vol.17 (3), p.359-360
Main Author: Winn, Phillip
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Building materials
Environment
Environmental economics
Ethnicity
Field study
Human ecology
Indonesia
Networks
Nonfiction
Political systems
Social organization
System theory
Trade
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Summary:Despite some (mainly historical) description of local political structures and several brief case studies of individual traders, the main 'actors' tend to be settlement populations rather than people; environmental imperatives and economic logic, rather than cultural or social life, loom largest as underpinning regional trading traditions.
ISSN:1035-8811
1757-6547