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...Ben J. Wallace Mindoro Highlanders: The Life of the Swidden Agriculturalist . By Yasushi Kikuchi . Quezon City : New Day Publishers , 1984 . xviii, 110 pp. Plate, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index, Map, Figures. $10. (Distributed in North America by The Cellar Book Shop, 18090 Wyoming...

...Robert Knox Dentan Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies of the Kalimantan Kantu' . By Michael Roger Dove . Berlin : Mouton Publishers , 1985 . (New Babylon Studies in the Social Sciences, no. 43) xx, 515 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Endnotes, Glossary, Bibliography...

... way, in fishing and swidden agriculture. Because of its strategic position between major landfalls, Cagayan de Sulu was second only to Jolo as an entrepot for ships entering the Philippines. The trade based on Cagayan de Sulu was part of an extensive economic and political system that linked peoples...

... ranging from the soil, agronomy, and forestry sciences through law, administration, and anthropology. The volume as a whole emphasizes the adaptation of traditional swidden systems to stresses produced by population growth and economic development. Most of these chapters, exclusive of the summary...

... the subsistence activities of two Tiruray populations. The first (Figel) is a mountain forest neighborhood of seventyfive adults engaged in swidden the author prefers the term "shifting" cultivation. The first 112 pages provide a systematic account of techniques of appropriation in the Figel neighborhood, giving...

... was produced by upland cultivation within swidden agriculture. The change to irrigated-rice cultivation began abruptly when Sundanese transmigrants arrived in 1907. Rapid population growth encouraged the development of new local strategies that combined subsistence and commercial production. In this historical...

... through Bayur. BENEDICT R. ANDERSON Cornell University Mindoro Highlanders: The Life of the Swidden Agriculturalist. By YASUSHI KIKUCHI. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1984. xviii, 110 pp. Plate, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index, Map, Figures. $10. (Distributed in North America by The Cellar Book Shop...

... little by way of explanation of the reasons why the Sino-Soviet rift is so intractable on this front, something that I have never had satisfatorily explained by "global balance" theorists. J. A. C. MACKIE Australian National University Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies...

..., Khmu, and Dao swidden cultivator neighbors, in a multilayered and dynamic study that draws as much on research methods from anthropology as it does on history or human geography. As Lentz writes, “this study analyzes how the Black River's threefold social formation interacted with downstream forces...

..., as ing the development in southern Borneo of a well as the complex relationship that developed pan-Dayak consciousness engendered to counter among palm-tappers, swidden cultivators on Banjar hegemony, which led eventually to the Sumba and Timor, and representatives of the establishment of the "Dayak...

... Epat; Ma'anyan traditional history; the sub-district and village setttlement pattern, market system, and institutional structures such as houses, markets, and schools; economic activity (which includes swidden cultivation, forest product use, and rubber growing); religious orientations, (animist...

... and village setttlement pattern, market system, and institutional structures such as houses, markets, and schools; economic activity (which includes swidden cultivation, forest product use, and rubber growing); religious orientations, (animist, Christian, and Moslem); the social and ritual concept...

... of the Miao has been keyed to frontier situations, i.e., the existence of empty spaces at 1,000 meters or more above sea level. There swidden cultivation of the poppy can thrive, and men can prosper until the land is exhausted; then, people and poppies move on. During the period of Professor Geddes's work...

... in the southern Philippines, Professor Schlegel describes the subsistence activities of two Tiruray populations. The first (Figel) is a mountain forest neighborhood of seventyfive adults engaged in swidden the author prefers the term "shifting" cultivation. The first 112 pages provide a systematic account...

... is probably an extremely common type in the Outer Islands of Indonesia: swidden farmers living on the upland margins of more settled and developed coastal regions, participating in the Islamic culture of the lowlands, yet ecologically of the mountains. Potentially, this is a dynamic situation, as it proved...

... called the incipient swidden-farming stage had by 1955 created a mature wetrice landscape. Thus parts of South Sumatra that for several thousand years had carried the imprint of shifting cultivation had by now undergone a drastic change involving complete removal of the second-growth forests...

... related to the ecology of the production of opium as a cash crop. The human/poppy eco-system of the Miao has been keyed to frontier situations, i.e., the existence of empty spaces at 1,000 meters or more above sea level. There swidden cultivation of the poppy can thrive, and men can prosper until the land...

... on the plasticity of labels and identities merits even greater emphasis. The terms hunter-gatherer , pastoralist , swidden cultivator , and sedentary peasant farmer do not refer to fixed identities. For thousands of years the Mesopotamian alluvium populations moved, as climate and politics suited them, from...

... and social organization. The bulk of the monograph, however, focuses on disturbances by means of climate, swiddening, burning, and logging. Two concluding chapters summarize successional processes in the upland areas in Zambales province and assess what the research suggests about the utility...

... and occasionally trade with them, bartering forest produce for various commodities such as metal. More efficient tools allow them to collect forest products for commercial purposes. They do so at the insistence of their agricultural neighbors who sell the forest products to traders. The swiddeners try to convince...