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Rice harvesting and social change in Java: an unfinished debate
Asia Pacific journal of anthropology • 1 (1) • Published In 2000 • Pages: 79-102
By: White, Benjamin Nicholas Forbes.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper discusses changes in the organization of agrarian labor in 'Kali Loro', a village in south central Java, Indonesia. The focus is on the ways in which rice harvesting labor has been recruited and remunerated from the early 1970s to late 1990s as the Indonesian government disseminated green revolution technologies and new farm tools including sickles (replacing the previously used finger-knife) and paddy-tractors. It argues that there is much continuity in rice harvesting relationships, despite noticeable changes in government policy and agrarian technologies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Wages and salaries
- Tillage
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Buying and selling
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Social relationships and groups
- Classes
- History
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Javanese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1973, 1999
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ben White
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00223025
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Javanese (Indonesian people)