| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Economics and sociology of the subsistence ethic -- 2. Subsistence security in peasant choice and values -- 3. Distribution of risk and colonial change -- 4. State as claimant -- 5. Depression rebellions -- 6. Implications for the analysis of exploitation : reciprocity and subsistence as justice -- 7. Revolt, survival, and repression. |
| Summary |
"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, the desire to own land even at some cost in terms of income, relationships with other people, and relationships with institutions, including the state. Once the centrality of the subsistence problem is recognized, its effects on notions of economic and political justice can also be seen. Scott draws from the history of agrarian society in lower Burma and Vietnam to show how the transformations of the colonial era systematically violated the peasants' 'moral economy' and created a situation of potential rebellion and revolution. Demonstrating keen insights into the behavior of people in other cultures and a rare ability to generalize soundly from case studies, Scott offers a different perspective on peasant behavior that will be of interest particularly to political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and Southeast Asianists."--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Peasants -- Southeast Asia.
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Peasants. |
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Southeast Asia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Scott, James C. Moral economy of the peasant. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976 0300018622 (DLC) 75043334 (OCoLC)2565934 |
| ISBN |
9780300185553 electronic book |
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0300185553 electronic book |
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0300018622 |
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9780300018622 |
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0300021909 |
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9780300021905 |
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