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100 1 $aScott, James C.
245 14 $aThe moral economy of the peasant :$brebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia /$cJames C. Scott.
246 30 $aRebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia
260 0 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c1976.
300 $aix, 246 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe economics and sociology of the subsistence ethic --$g2.$tSubsistence security in peasant choice and values --$g3.$tThe distribution of risk and colonial change --$g4.$tThe state as claimant --$g5.$tThe depression rebellions --$g6.$tImplications for the analysis of exploitation : reciprocity and subsistence as justice --$g7.$tRevolt, survival, and repression.
520 $a"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.
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