HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY, POLITICAL-ECONOMY, AND IDEOLOGY - PEASANTS AND THE STATE IN SOUTHEAST-ASIA

We use Chayanov's central concept of the on-farm balance to develop descriptions of household production that provide evidence for the way households fit into the material realities of their economic, social, and political systems. This provides a theoretically, ethnographically, and historically motivated way to compare households and political-economic systems and their cultural correlates.