Orang Mentawai: Peladang Tradisional dan Ekonomi Pasar

This article describes the pattern of cultivation, production and distribution offarm fields of the Mentawai society which are based on the results of a researchconducted using the perspective of economic anthropology. The study was conducted ineight hamlets. Four separate hamlets in the north and south of Siberut Island, four otherseparate hamlets in Sipora Island and North Pagai Island. The farming habit of plantingvarious types of plants in the field (mone) to meet the needs of food and cash crops to besold (commodities for exports) is not focused and can only adapt to the market price andthe small quantity of harvest, individually cost them, in contrast to traders who havestrategies to anticipate losses due to the fluctuation of price.Key words: traditional cultivation, marke