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082 _a305.800959
_bSCO
100 _aScott, James C.
245 _aArt of not being governed
_ban anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
260 _c2010
_bOrient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
_aNew Delhi
300 _axviii,442p.
500 _aCONTENTS 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
890 _aIndia
891 _aFP
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