TY - GEN AU - Scott, James C. TI - Art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia SN - 9788125039211 U1 - 305.800959 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. N1 - CONTENTS Preface ix Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia 1 State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation 40 Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice 64 Civilization and the Unruly 98 Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills 127 State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape 178 Orality, Writing, and Texts 220 Ethnogenesis: A Radical Constructionist Case 238 Prophets of Renewal 283 Conclusion 324 Notes 339 Glossary 407 Index 415 ER -