The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island by Patricia Spyer
The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island

Patricia Spyer

The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island

Patricia Spyer

384 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres--the 'Aru' and the 'Malay'--and ...

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