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Description

1. xxii, 422 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "This book examines the role of community, market and state in the historic transformation of upland livelihoods in Southeast Asia. Focusing on the Saribas Iban of Sarawak, the book combines in-depth, generation-long village case studies with an account of changes in land use and tenure at the regional level spanning a century and a half. This analysis demonstrates that, far from being passive victims of globalization, the Iban have been active agents in their own transformation, engaging with both market and state while retaining community values and governance. The book offers a fascinating, empirically rich account of interest to scholars, development practitioners and the general reader alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Series statement

1. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 110

Uniform title

1. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 110.

Subject

1. Land use, Rural > Malaysia > Sarawak
2. Land tenure > Malaysia > Sarawak
3. Agriculture > Malaysia > Sarawak > History
4. Iban (Bornean people) > Land tenure
5. 83.66 agricultural economics
6. Agriculture
7. Economic history
8. Land tenure
9. Land use, Rural
10. Social conditions
11. Wandel
12. Agrargesellschaft
13. Sozioökonomischer Wandel
14. Agrarsystem
15. Agricultural development
16. Land use
17. Exploitations agricoles > Malaisie > Sarawak (Malaisie)
18. Droit adat > Malaisie > Sarawak (Malaisie)
19. Sol, Utilisation agricole du > Malaisie > Sarawak (Malaisie)
20. Lantbruk > ekonomiska aspekter > Sydostasien
21. Sarawak (Malaysia) > Economic conditions
22. Sarawak (Malaysia) > Social conditions
23. Malaysia > Sarawak
24. Sarawak
25. Sarawak
26. Sarawak (Malaisie) > Conditions sociales
27. Sarawak (Malaisie) > Conditions économiques

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Agrarian transformation in the Southeast Asian uplands -- The Iban of Sarawak -- The pre-colonial agrarian system of the Saribas Iban -- The Brooke state and Iban land -- The struggle for land in the Brooke period -- The growth of commercial agriculture in the Brooke period -- The adaptation of land tenure to commercial agriculture -- Agrarian law and policy in the post-war period -- Public and private agents of agrarian development in the uplands -- Post-war transformation of smallholder agriculture in the Saribas district -- Land tenure and land development in the Saribas district -- The struggle for balanced development in the Southeast Asian uplands.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-412) and index.