Looking for money: capitalism and modernity in an Orang Asli village
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES vii
LIST OF PLATES ix
LIST OF FIGURES xi
PREFACE xiii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvii
chafter 1 INTRODUCTION 1
Semai, Trade and Market Relations 2
Theoretical Orientation 12
Methodology 16
chapter 2 THE SETTING 21
The People 22
The Region 26
The Village 37
The Households . 43
chapter 3 PRODUCTION: TIME ALLOCATION 51
Aggregate Production 52
Commodity Production 54
Fruit Collecting 55
Forest Product Collecting 58
Rubber Tapping 62
Wage Labour 64
Subsistence Production 65
Swiddening 66
Fishing and Hunting 70
Gathering 71
Domestic Work 71
Seasonal Variation 73
Individual Variation 77
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chapter 4 PRODUCTION OUTPUT AND INCOME 85
Aggregate Production 87
Commodity Production 88
Fruit Collecting 88
Forest Product Collecting 94
Rubber Tapping 96
Wage Labour and Petty Trading 98
Subsistence Production 98
Swidden Cultivation 99
Fishing and Hunting 102
Monthly Income Variation 107
Productivity 108
Decline of Subsistence Production 112
chapter 5 MARKET RELATIONS 117
The Market Place and the Traders 118
Market Dependence 122
Market Relations: Credit and Indebtedness 125
Trading 130
Purchasing 135
chapter 6 COMMODITISATION AND SOCIAL RELATIONS 145
Gender Relations 146
Development of Private Property 149
Appropriation 152
Growth of Profit Making Enterprises 156
Changes in Sharing Practices: Food Exchange and Sarikat 158
Decline in Labour Cooperation 164
Social Differentiation 168
chapter 7 THE FUTURE OF THE TAPAH SEMAI 177
Control of Productive Means 178
Market Reliability 184
The Role of the State 186
How Resilient is the Semai Economy? 191
Conclusion 194
EPILOGUE 197
APPENDICES 203
REFERENCES 223
INDEX 233
LIST OF TABLES
2.1 Line of Succession of the Regional Headmanship
in Upper Batang Padang Valley 35
2.2 Age Sex Composition in the Village (January 1983) 41
2.3 The Composition of Households in Lengap (June 1981) 45
2.4 Number of Productive Durian and Petai Trees Owned
by Individuals in the Sample 47
3.1 Annual Time Allocation of Men and Women in the Sample
to Production, November 1982 to October 1983 53
3.2 Annual Time Allocation by Men and Women in the Sample to Various
Commodity Productive Activities, November 1982 to October 1983
55
3.3 Annual Time Allocation by Men and Women in the Sample to Various
Subsistence Productive and Housebuilding,
November 1982 to October 1983 69
3.4 Annual Time allocation to Commodity and Subsistence
Production by Individual 78
3.5 Annual Time Allocation To Various Productive Activities by
Individual (in hours) 79
3.6 Annual Time Allocation To Various Productive Activities by
Individual (in % of Total of Each Activity) 80
3.7 Annual Time Allocation To Various Productive Activities by
Individual (in % of Each Individual s Working Time) 81
4.1 Annual Income (cash and imputed) from Commodity
Production and Subsistence Production by Household 86
4.2 Annual Cash Income From Various Commodity Production
Activities and Other Sources by Household 87
4.3 Petai Collecting: Production and Income by Household 89
4.4 Durian Production by Household and Individual 93
4.5 Income ( $) from the Collection of Other Fruits and Forest
Products and Rubber Tapping by Household and Individual 95
4.6 Insect Collecting: Production and Income by Household
and Individual 97
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4.7 Annual Imputed Income ( $) from Various Subsistence
Productive Activities and Housebuilding by Household 99
4.8 Rice Production in Lengap (1983) 101
4.9 River Fishing and Gathering: Production (in Kilograms)
by Individual According to Type of Fauna 103
4.10 Hunting and Trapping: Production in Kilograms (and numbers
in brackets) by Individual According to Type of Animal 105
4.11 Hourly Cash Returns From Various Productive Activities
by Individual 113
5.1 Debts with Durian Trader (1983) 129
5.2 Average Monthly Household Expenditure on Various
Categories by Household 142
6.1 Sarikat Contribution to Wedding in Lengap on 1st March 1983... 164
6.2 Sarikat Contributions by Lengap Villagers to Other Villages 165
6.3 Petai Collections by Six Men by Form of Production Unit,
November 1982 to October 1983 (percentage in brackets) 168
6.4 Percentage of the Number of Times Individual Cooperated
with Person from Other households According to Productive
Activity 169
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LIST OF PLATES
2.1 A cluster of Semai houses in Lengap 25
2.2 A group of Semai children playing in the village yard 28
2.3 A young Semai girl with blots of white cooling powder
painted on her forehead 31
2.4 Semai children at play in Lengap 38
2.5 Children pushing their younger siblings in prams while their
parents are out working 39
3.1 Bah Chiyok rather precariously perched on a tall petai tree
whilst plucking petai with a long pole 56
3.2 Semai woman returning to the village with bamboo poles 57
3.3 A Semai couple resting on the rocks by the bank of the river
whilst butterfly collecting 58
3.4 A Semai man in the process of burning a clearing for a rice
selai (swidden) 59
3.5 Members of two Lengap households returning to the village
after firewood gathering 60
3.6 A Semai man cooking glutinous rice in bamboo tubes over
fire whilst on lookers wait to partake in the meal 61
3.7 A Semai couple working in a swidden clearing 62
3.8 A Semai woman weeding her swidden with a sickle 63
3.9 Semai men in the process of housebuilding 64
3.10 Semai girl thatching bertam palm leaves to make the roofing
for a new house being constructed 65
3.11 Two Lengap women resting from gathering of cassava from
their swiddens 67
4.1 Semai woman tying up petai into bundles 90
4.2 Several Lengap Semai waiting for the rattan trader. 91
4.3 Semai woman cutting up bamboo into strips 106
4.4 Semai rolling coagulated latex into rubber sheets 107
4.5 Bah Oleh harvesting rice with a finger knife 110
4.6 Semai man using a gul (rice pounder) to dehusk newly
harvested rice from his swidden Ill
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5.1 Petai trading in process 119
5.2 Vendor on motorcycle selling to Semai woman in Lengap 126
5.3 A Semai run shop in the Tapah Region 127
6.1 A more elaborate Malay style dwelling in a Semai village in
the Tapah region 171
7.1 A JHEOA village gotong royong (cooperative) fruit planting
project 182
7.2 Dr Baharon, the then Director of JO A, digging a hole during
the fruit planting gotong royong 183
7.3 Wooden houses in Sungei Odak Resettlement 187
7.4 German tourists visiting Lengap village 193
LIST OF FIGURES
1.1 Hypothesised structure of internal trading system of
15th 19th century Malaya 5
2.1 Orang Asli groups of the Malay Peninsula 23
2.2 Semai villages in upper Batang Padang river basin 27
3.1 Time allocation for commodity and subsistence production 74
3.2 Time allocation for commodity production 74
3.3 Time allocation for subsistence production and
housebuilding 75
4.1 Distribution of annual cash income among the
six households (thousands) 86
4.2 Distribution of annual per capita income among
six households 87
4.3 Monthly variation in household cash income 108
4.4 Monthly variation in cash income by household 109
5.1 Domestically produced and market purchased
foods (percentage) 123
5.2 Annual household expenditure on various categories 125
5.3 Household expenditure on various categories by month 137
5.4 Household expenditure on various foodstuffs by month 138
5.5 Average monthly expenditure of six households 140
5.6 Average monthly per capita expenditure of six households 141
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