Contents
Preface ix
1. Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia 1
2. State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation 40
3. Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and rrigated Rice 64
4. Civilization and the Unruly 98
5. Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills 127
6. State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape 178
6½. Orality, Writing, and Texts 220
7. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Constructionist Case 238
8. Prophets of Renewal 283
9. Conclusion 324
Notes 339
Glossary 407
Index 415