Debojyoti Das

The Politics of Swidden farming

Environment and Development in Eastern India

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Produktbeschreibung

'The Politics of Swidden farming' is an ethnography of swidden farming practised - a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian development among the eastern Naga community inhabiting the northeastern borderland state of Nagaland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781783087754
• ISBN-10: 1783087757
• Artikelnr.: 50991529

Autorenporträt

Debojyoti Das is an AHRC-GCRF postdoctoral associate at Bristol University, UK. He received his PhD in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has held several prestigious fellowships and consultancies at Yale, Sussex and the University of London. Das has published widely in journals such as the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and Economic and Political Weekly besides contributing to blogs.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Methodology and Fieldwork: Negotiating Hazardous Fields
Chapter 3 Ethnography, Violence and Memory: Telling Violence in the Naga Hills
Chapter 4 Jhum and the 'Science of Empire': Ecological Discourse, Ethnographic Knowledge and Colonial Mediation
Chapter 5 Land and Land-Based Relations in a Yimchunger Naga Village: From a Book View to a Field View
Chapter 6 The Politics of Time: The Missionary Calendar, the Protestant Ethic and Labour Relations among the Eastern Nagas
Chapter 7 The Micro-Politics of Development Intervention: Village Patrons, Community Participation and the NEPED Project
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Notes, Bibliography
Index.