A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world. Robert Hefner presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and social history. He describes the forces that have shaped upland politics and society from pre-colonial times to the Green Revolution today.
A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world. Robert Hefner presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and

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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520082694
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1eBook ISBN
9780520913769
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Map 1. East and Central Java
- Map 2. The Tengger Highlands
- ONE Introduction Mountain Java in History and Social Theory
- TWO Politics and Community in Premodem History
- THREE Agricultural History Intensification and Degradation
- FOUR The Green Revolution in Mountain Agriculture
- FIVE Relations in Production Social Change in Land and Labor
- SIX Consumption Communities
- SEVEN Politics and Social Identity The 1965-66 Violence and Its Aftermath
- EIGHT Conclusion Economy and Moral Community
- APPENDIX A Note on History and Ethnographic Method
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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