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Work and Life of the Rural Proletariat in Java's Coastal Plain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jan Breman
Jan Breman
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Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam
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The village S lies in the plain that is known as the rice store of West Java. Surrounded by fields on which paddy is cultivated for a large part of the year, the visitor sees S as the prototype of the agrarian settlements that fill the landscape: a small-scale concentration of houses hidden amongst trees and farmyard crops, whose inhabitants have for centuries lived in the shelter of their community and depend for their living largely or even entirely on cultivating the land in the locality. This is the classical image of peasant society as laid down in the literature, but one that is in need of revision also in this particular case.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1995 , pp. 1 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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