The art of not being governed: an anarchist history of upland southeast Asia/
James C. Scott.
- New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
- xviii, 442 p. ; 24 cm.
- (Yale agrarian studies) .
Hills, valleys, and states: an introduction to Zomia -- State space: zones of governance and appropriation -- Concentrating manpower and grain: slavery and irrigated rice -- Civilization and the unruly -- Keeping the state at a distance: the peopling of the hills -- State evasion, state prevention: the culture and agriculture of escape -- Orality, writing, and texts -- Ethnogenesis: a radical constructionist case -- Prophets of renewal -- Conclusion.
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Southeast Asia Ethnology Rural conditions Peasants--Political activity Politics and government Indigenous peoples--Government relations