1. Introduction -- 2. The "way" of peasant politics : agrarian revolt and the little tradition : the religious dimension -- 3. Themes of peasant politics : localism, syncretism, profanation : agrarian revolt and the little tradition : the political dimension -- 4. Modes of dissimulation -- 5....

James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household-subsistence-at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation, the...