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the changing structure of appropriations in Vedda agriculture
Author(s) -
BROW JAMES
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1978.5.3.02a00020
Subject(s) - peasant , production (economics) , product (mathematics) , agriculture , subject (documents) , political science , economy , economic system , political economy , economics , geography , law , archaeology , geometry , mathematics , library science , computer science , macroeconomics
An understanding of the processes whereby tribal and traditional peasant communities have been increasingly drawn into national and even global economies demands detailed analysis of the changes in the form and magnitude of appropriations to which the output of direct producers is liable, and also of associated changes in the structure of class and status relations. A quantified account of the appropriations made during one recent year of production in a single Anuradhapura Vedda village is followed by a study of the historical developments that, in the last 150 years, have transformed a predominantly nonappropriate economy into one in which the product of Vedda cultivators is subject both to “hierarchical” and, increasingly, “capitalistic” forms of appropriations.