The Memory of TradeThe Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyers study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheresthe Aru and the Malayand the fissured construction of community that has ensued from centuries of active international trade and more recent encroachments of modernity. Drawing on more than two years of archival and ethnographic research,