The moral economy of the peasant : rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia /
"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1976.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=523602 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The economics and sociology of the subsistence ethic
- 2. Subsistence security in peasant choice and values
- 3. The distribution of risk and colonial change
- 4. The state as claimant
- 5. The depression rebellions
- 6. Implications for the analysis of exploitation : reciprocity and subsistence as justice
- 7. Revolt, survival, and repression.