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

by Roy F. Ellen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824826760
• ISBN13: 9780824826765
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.7"