Peasant Pedlars and Professional Traders: Subsistence Trade in Rural Markets of Minahasa, Indonesia

✍ Scribed by Ulrich Mai

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Trading in the rural areas of developing countries provides a valuable source of cash income, especially for small and landless peasants. In a case study of the village of Kakas in the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, the authors depict the colourful market scene of a village pasar, the selling and buying strategies of traders and customers, and the characteristics of supply and demand. They also shed light on the often-neglected non-economic aspects of the pasar, such as its value for local communication and its role in the formation of a new sense of local identity and solidarity. By means of studies of trader households this book also scrutinizes how rural households combine petty trade with other income-generating activities such as cash-cropping, subsistence production, wage labour, and even work as a civil servant. The authors also show how petty trade, though highly efficient, may well be an indicator of underdevelopment.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction (UM)
2. Field-Work Methodology (HB)
3. Minahasa: Some Thoughts on the Region (HB)
4. Kakas Village (UM)
5. Pasar Kakas (UM)
6. Trader Households
7. Part-Time and Permanent Traders (UM)
8. Trading within the Strategy of Combined Economic Sectors (UM)
9. The Efficient Subsistence Trader and the World Market (UM)
10. Trading past the Market-Place: The Case of Cloves (UM)
11. Socia- Economic Change and the Role of Traders in the Village (UM)
Bibliography