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The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia / James C. Scott

Author(s): Scott, James C.

The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia / James C. Scott
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Main Title
The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
Author(s)
Scott, James C.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009
Collation
xviii, 442 pages
24 cm
Series Title
Yale agrarian studies
ISBN
9780300169171
Dewey Class
305.8
Contents
Hills, valleys, and states: an introduction to Zomia -- State space: zones of governance and appropriation -- Concentrating manpower and grain: slavery and irrigated rice -- Civilization and the unruly -- Keeping the state at a distance: the peopling of the hills -- State evasion, state prevention: the culture and agriculture of escape -- Orality, writing, and texts -- Ethnogenesis: a radical constructionist case -- Prophets of renewal -- Conclusion.
Language
English
Subject
Ethnology -- Southeast Asia
Peasants -- Political activity -- Southeast Asia
BRN
560

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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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