Dependence on Green Gold

by Christiaan Heersink

Selayar, an island off the coast of Southwest Sulawesi and belonging to the Makassarese-Buginese realm, is dry and rocky, with a fragile subsistence economy. Yet in the late colonial period its economy prospered, as it became an important supplier of copra, or dried coconut, extensively used in the Western oil and fats industry as a raw material for soap and margarine. In the 1920s, the heyday of copra trade, many Selayarese converted their profits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067181293
• ISBN13: 9789067181297
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Brill