Book
Looking for money: capitalism and modernity in an Orang Asli village
Center for Orang Asli Concerns: Trans Pacific Press • Melbourne, Vic. • Published In 2004 • Pages:
By: Gomes, Alberto G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of subsistence patterns and simple commodity production in a Semai village. The author surmises that people in the region have been trading forest products since the first millennium A.D., which intensified with access to European and Chinese markets through Malay middlemen and traders. The data collected includes data on time allocation, production output, and household income and expenditures for six households for one year. Households practice diverse subsistence activities, including fishing, hunting, gathering and swidden cultivation; and cash-earning activities, such as rubber tapping, forest product gathering and wage labor. The major forest product commodities are petai, durian and rattan. Petai and durian are gathered by "husbanded collecting," i.e., from privately-owned trees planted in the wild. Private ownership is a new development. Gomes depicts a flexible economy that has for many years been dependent on the marketplace for income and consumption.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Agriculture
- Exchange and transfers
- Marketing
- Labor and leisure
- Cooperative organization
- Standard of living
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Semai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-2002
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lengap village, Batang Padang district, Perak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alberto G. Gomes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2005360359
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Senoi (Southeast Asian people)--Malaysia--Batang Padang (Perak)--Economic conditions
- Senoi (Southeast Asian people)--Malaysia--Batang Padang (Perak)--Social Conditions
- Economic development--Social aspects--Malaysia--Batang Padang (Perak)
- Capitalism--Malaysia--Batang Padang (Perak)
- Batang Padang (Perak)--Economic conditions
- Batang Padang (Perak)--Social conditions