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...Rob Jenkins Breman is at his best when analyzing the complex social realities that have often led landowners to act in ways that appear inexplicable. During the colonial period, why did patrons engage more laboring clients than they could usefully employ? After independence, why did some...

...Sugata Bose 912 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Of Peasants, Migrants, and Paupers: Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Pro- duction in West India. By J A N BREMAN. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. xxviii, 472 pp. Rs. 195. Rural Labourers in Bengal, 1880-1980. By WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL...

...Howard Spodek Wage Hunters and Gatherers: Search for Work in the Urban and Rural Economy of Southern Gujarat . By Jan Breman . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xi, 422 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 488 THE JOURNAL...

...Robert R. Jay The Village on Java and the Early-Colonial State . By Jan Breman . Rotterdam : Erasmus University , 1980 . (Comparative Asian Studies Program, no. 1) 54 pp. N.p. Javanese Society in Regional Perspective: Some Historical and Sociological Aspects . By Jacques van Doorn...

... made a mess of it (p. 301). His more specific "defence" is essentially an attack on critics of colonialism, in particular Jan Breman (e.g., Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia [Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989 The latter's qualifications...

... subverted from within. Breman sees the conflicts primarily as economic, but he also reveals the caste antagonisms which increase the distance and inflame the passions separating high and low. These findings are not unique, but Breman brings them home through careful participant observation at the local...

... in the Urban and Rural Economy of Southern Gujarat, By J A N B R E M A N . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xi, 422 pp. $32.00 (cloth). For almost thirty five years Jan Breman has been a circular migrant, traveling regularly between his home base in Holland where he is Professor of Sociology...

...," and Livingstone on "Population Growth and Rural Labor Absorption in Eastern and Southern Africa." The next part, on "Class Structure and Labor Relations," has contributions by Jan Breman and Akin L. Mabogunje. Jan Breman, in "Agrarian Change and Class Conflict in Gujarat, India," refutes the "rationality...

...Miriam Sharma Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania . Edited by Jan van Breman and Akitoshi Shimizu . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press , 1999 . xi, 409 pp. £40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 394 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES What...

... Century .” Continuity and Change 24 ( 1 ): 55 – 78 . Breman , Jan . 2015 . Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press . Coolhaas , W. Ph. , eds. 1964 . Generale Missiven van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde...

... introduction stresses the "memories and material survivals" of the past in the study of bondage and slavery, which Breman tends to reject. He is prepared to define as bondage only the form of debt labor that is enforced through extraeconomic coercion. The "precapitalist personal, or even familial bondage which...

... literature on the late colonial economy represented in part in the well-known works of authors such as Ann Stoler and Jan Breman. Both of these authors were highly critical of the colonial state and those who ran the European-owned colonial-era economic enterprises, especially in relation to exploitative...

... posits a tension in individuals between the roles of administrator and anthropologist mirrored by the moral conflict between cultural relativism and the moral certitude of Christianity. A final chapter by coeditor Jan van Breman attempts a comparison of Japanese and Dutch colonial anthropology (1879-1949...

... is that the cases are studies of struggles and therefore disproportionately highlight the "volcanic" end of the spectrum. Moreover, a nuanced reading of the studies suggests that there are significant variations in understandings of exploitation at the level of popular consciousness. Jan Breman's piece...

... experience of urbanization and industrialization in the West, in which labor moved on a permanent basis. 15 Relatively little attention has been paid to these workers, except by a handful of scholars, prominent among them the Dutch sociologist Jan Breman, who draws on his fifty-some years of ethnographic...

... Breman, on the other hand, finds the culprit in the Indian social structure. He concludes that the Halts in nineteenth-century south Gujarat constituted primarily "a form of unfree labor that was complicated and mitigated by a relationship of patronage" (p. 279) such as the caste-based jajmani system...

... and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania. Edited by J A N VAN BREMAN and AKITOSHI SHIMIZU. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999xi, 409 pp. £40.00. ...

..., but with Ashish Nandy, D. L. Sheth, and Partha Chatterji as well. Because they expect the state not to perform, neo-traditionalists let it off the hook (p. 252). In the following chapter, Jan Breman reports from the frontline of a communal conflict in Gujarat. His breathless and despondent report shows how...

... not to perform, neo-traditionalists let it off the hook (p. 252). In the following chapter, Jan Breman reports from the frontline of a communal conflict in Gujarat. His breathless and despondent report shows how warring ghettos are created by the Hindutva state and how civil society suffers as a consequence...

... Since Independence , 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Jan Breman . 1996 . Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . CAD. Constituent Assembly Debates. Government of India. 1946–49. Debates of the Constituent Assembly...