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- 1 2 3 4 Peluso, Nancy L. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java . Berkeley [u.a.]: Univ. of California Press, 1992. pp. 106-107
- ↑ Poffenberger, Mark. Keepers of the Forest: Land Management Alternatives in Southeast Asia . Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990. p. 45
- ↑ Poffenberger, Mark. Keepers of the Forest: Land Management Alternatives in Southeast Asia . Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990. p. 44
- ↑ Peluso, Nancy L. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java . Berkeley [u.a.]: Univ. of California Press, 1992. p. 119
- 1 2 Peluso, Nancy L. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java . Berkeley [u.a.]: Univ. of California Press, 1992. pp. 120-121
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