The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia / James C. Scott
Author(s): Scott, James C.
Library Item Details
- 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
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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305.8 SCO
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