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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Scott, James C. (Údar)
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976.
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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.