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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field Date
- 1972-1973, 1999
- Coverage Date
- 1970-1999
- Coverage Place
- Java, Indonesia
- Notes
- Ben White
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102)
- LCCN
- 00223025
- LCSH
- Javanese (Indonesian people)