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The (un)changing world of peasants: two perspectives.('Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia' and 'The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia')(Book review)

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

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Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia. By Clifford Geertz. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1963.

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Keywords: Peasants, agrarian societies, agricultural involution, moral economy, colonialism, ethnicity.

To consider both Clifford Geertz' Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia and James Scott's The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia in the same review essay is ...

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