Ebook: Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance

[In this text, the author] show[s] how ethnographic accounts do not, indeed cannot, present a 'full transcript' of peasant resistance to encroachments from the outside, since it is peasant strategy (footdragging, lateness, unpredictability, noncommunication, and so on) not to comply with power.-Back cover.;Small arms fire in the class war -- Normal exploitation, normal resistance -- Landscape of resistance -- Sedaka, 1967-1979 -- History according to winners and losers -- Stretching the truth, ideology at work -- Beyond the war of words, cautious resistance and calculated conformity -- hegemony and consciousness, everyday forms of ideological struggle -- Appendixes: Note on village population, 1967-1979; Farm income comparisons for different tenure and farm size categories, Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979; Data on land tenure changes, net returns, and political office;; Glossary of local terms; Translation of Surat layang.