Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance 9780300153620

This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against t

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Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
 9780300153620

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Tables
Preface
1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War
2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance
3. The Landscape of Resistance
4. Sedaka, 1967-1979
5. History According to Winners and Losers
6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work
7. Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity
8. Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of Ideological Struggle
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

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Weapons of the Weak

Weapons of the Weak EVERYDAY FORMS OF PEASANT RESISTANCE

James C. Scott

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

NEW HAVEN AND LONDON

Copyright © 1985 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form