Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined how the upland people in the insular Southeast Asia had changed their way of life by the introduction of coffee cultivation drawing on field research accounts and ethnographic literatures. Focusing on the historical background of the introduction of coffee cultivation and currency by colonial power, and the current relationship between traditional economy and market economy in the uplands in Timor-Leste and Indonesia, this study explored the use of currency had been extremely limited and gift economy still had been dominant in the uplands of Timor-Leste and Indonesia until 1980s. The study also discussed that coffee farmers in the contemporary Timor-Leste became heavily to depend upon the income of coffee cultivation, and the coexistence of market economy and traditional economy has affected their living of coffee farmers.
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