""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia""; ""2. State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation""; ""3. Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice""; ""4. Civilization and the Unruly""; ""5. Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills""; ""6. State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape""; ""6Â?. Orality, Writing, and Texts""; ""7. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Constructionist Case""; ""8. Prophets of Renewal""; ""9. Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""C""; ""G""; ""H""; ""K""