Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Alor Setar average Bashir behavior cash Chinese claim class relations combine combine-harvesters context crop cultivation dominant double-cropping E. P. Thompson economic elite example fact Fadzil families farm feasts forms of resistance green revolution gunny sacks Haji Broom Haji Jaafar Haji Kadir Haji Salim Hamzah harvest hegemony hired households ideology income irrigated Islamic Kedah Kelantan kenduri Kepala Batas kupang Land Tenure landlord landowners large farmers leasehold least Lebai less loans machine Malay Malaysia Mat halus material means nearly neighbors normative owner paddy fields paddy land padi pajak Pak Yah party peasant peasantry percent political poor villagers poorer poorest production rarely Razak relong rent rice rich ritual Rokiah rural season Sedaka simply social struggle subordinate classes susah symbolic tenants theft threshing transplanting typically UMNO members UMNO UMNO UMNO Univ village village poor wage labor water buffalo wealthy well-off well-to-do workers zakat peribadi