ISBN:
9780300156522
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0300156529
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1282352644
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9781282352643
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0300152280
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9780300152289
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 442 pages)
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illustrations, maps.
Series Statement:
Yale agrarian studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scott, James C Art of not being governed
DDC:
305.800959
Keywords:
Ethnology Southeast Asia
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Peasants Political activity
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Southeast Asia
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Peasants Political activity
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Ethnology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SCIENCE ; General
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Ethnology
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Peasants ; Political activity
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Politics and government
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Rural conditions
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Bergbewohner
;
Staat
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Politieke macht
;
Plattelandsbevolking
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Platteland
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Southeast Asia Politics and government
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1945-
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Southeast Asia Rural conditions
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Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia Politics and government 1945-
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Southeast Asia Rural conditions
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Southeast Asia
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Südostasien
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Electronic books Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them--slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an "anarchist history," is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of "internal colonialism." This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott's work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen
Abstract:
LM -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1njkkx
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