Summer 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

Why Civilisations Can't Climb Hills: a political history of statelessness in Southeast Asia


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Contributor(s): Professor James Scott | Professor Scott argues that the hill peoples of mainland Southeast Asia are fugitive, runaway populations, practising 'escape agriculture', 'escape social structure' and 'escape culture'. Jim Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University.
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Summer 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfBy London School of Economics and Political Science