Looking for money
Subtitle: capitalism and modernity in an Orang Asli village
By: Alberto G. Gomes.
Contributors: Center for Orang Asli Concerns (Subang Jaya, Selangor)
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: 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.
Description: "Looking for Money is about the entanglement of an indigenous people, the Semai of Malaysia, with modernity. A key feature of this entanglement is the process of commoditisation that has resulted in what is emically known as 'looking for money' work." "Based on ethnographic research, Alberto Gomes documents and analyses the extent and effects of Semai involvement in commodity production and wage labour."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published in cooperation with the Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Malaysia.
Table of contents: value: Ch. 1.; value: Introduction -- -- Ch. 2.; value: The setting -- -- Ch. 3.; value: Production : time allocation -- -- Ch. 4.; value: Production output and income -- -- Ch. 5.; value: Market relations -- -- Ch. 6.; value: Commoditisation and social relations -- -- Ch. 7.; value: The future of the Tapah Semai.