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Argues that peasants prioritize avoiding economic disaster over maximizing average income, shaping patterns of tenancy and taxation. Examines how commercialization and bureaucratic expansion in Lower Burma and Vietnam destabilized peasant subsistence and intensified resistance, illustrated by the Saya San Rebellion and the Nghe-Tinh Soviets.","The  \nMoral Economyof the Peasant  \nREBELLION AND SUBSISTENCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA  \nJames C.Scott  \nThe Moral Economyof the Peasant  \nREBELLION AND SUBSISTENCEIN SOUTHEAST ASIA  \nJames C.Scott  \nCopyright O1976 by Yale University.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nThis book may not be reproduced,in whole or in part,including illustratons,in anyform (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S.CopyrightLaw and except by reviewers for the public press),without written permission fromthe publishers.  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card number 75-43334  \nInternational standard book number:978-0-300-02190-5(paperbound)  \nDesigned byJohn O.C.McCrillis and set in Baskerville Roman types.Printed in theUnited States of America.  \nThe paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of theCommittee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on LibraryResources.  \nFor Mia,Aaron,and Noah  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nContents  \nPreface  \n亏  \nIntroduction  \n1 The Economics and Sociology of the Subsistence Ethic  \n13  \n2 Subsistence Security in Peasant Choice and Values  \n3  \n3 The Distribution of Risk and Colonial Change56  \n4 The State as Claimant91  \n5 The Depression Rebellions  \n114  \n6 Implications for the Analysis of Exploitation:Reciprocity and Subsistence as Justice157  \n7 Revolt,Survival,and Repression  \n193  \nIndex  \n241  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \n# Preface\n\nThis study of the basis of peasant politics and rebellion begins withTawney's metaphor describing “the position of the rural population\"as\"that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water,so thateven a ripple might drown him.\"It places the critical problem of thepeasant family—a secure subsistence---at the center of the study ofpeasant politics,where I believe it belongs.I try to show how the fear ofdearth explains many otherwise anomalous technical,social,and moralarrangements in peasant socie:y.  \nThe fact that subsistence-oriented peasants typically prefer to avoideconomic disaster rather than take risks to maximize their average in-come has enormous implications for the problem of exploitation.On thebasis of this principle,it is possible to deduce those systems of tenancyand taxation that are likely to have the most crushing impact on peasantlife.The critical problem is not the average surplus extracted by elitesand the state,but rather whose income is stabilized at the expense ofwhom.The theory is examined in the light of the historical developmentof agrarian society in Lower Burma and Vietnam.Both the commerciali-zation of agriculture and the growth of bureaucratic states producedsystems of tenancy and taxation that increasingly undermined the stabil-ity of peasant income and provoked fierce resistance.Two notableepisodes of such resistance,the Saya San Rebellion in Burma and theNghe-Tinh Soviets in Vietnam,are analyzed in some detail.  \nThroughout the volume,I have taken pains to emphasize the moralcontent of the subsistence ethic.The problem of exploitation and rebell-ion is thus not just a problem of calories and income but is a question ofpeasant conceptions of social justice,of rights and obligations,of reci-procity.  \nSince proofreading the final version of this manuscript I have comeacross a good many economic studies of Third World agriculture as wellas archival material on rebellion which might have strengthened theargument and added a few nuances.In particular,I regret that KeithGriffin's The Political Economy of Agrarian Change and Jeffrey Paige'sAgrarian Revolution were not available to me in the course of writing.  \nReaders willnote that the study of the moral economy of the peasan-try,while it begins in the domain of economics,must end in the study ofpeasant culture and religion.I have tried to indicate,especially whendiscussing the problem of false consciousness,the lines along which suchan inquiry might proceed bur I have only scratched the surface here.In  \nsubsequent work I hope","cbCaieCF2NOeGTzq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieCF2NOeGTzq","pdf",14161374,1,257,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n# Introduction\n## The Economics and Sociology of the Subsistence Ethic\n## Subsistence Security in Peasant Choice and Values\n## The Distribution of Risk and Colonial Change\n## The State as Claimant\n## The Depression Rebellions\n## Implications for the Analysis of Exploitation: Reciprocity and Subsistence as Justice\n## Revolt, Survival, and Repression\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the study in the Preface?\",\"answer\":\"The study centers on the basis of peasant politics and rebellion, placing secure subsistence at the core. 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