Swindling in the Shop: Strategies of Deceit as an Open Secret in the Rural Market of Maluku.

This research illustrates the crafty practices of deceit employed by Butonese farmers and their ethnic Chinese employers in Maluku. These acts of deception reveal the continuing mistrust between these ethnically different groups within their economically interdependent hierarchical relationships. Pe...

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Publicado en:Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences of Southeast Asia & Oceania / Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol. 179; no. 1; pp. 90 - 115
Autor principal: Kadir, Hatib Abdul
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2023
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