CHENA (slash-and-burn) CULTIVATION AND ITS REPRESSION IN COLONIAL CEYLON by Eric P. Meyer

“Asking villagers to desist from chena cultivation is much the same as asking them to starve to please government” John George Fraser, Ceylon Settlement Officer, diary, 16.02.1902. Chena (slash-and-burn) cultivation is commonly regarded as characteristic of the dry zone of Sri Lanka; its technical, economic, and social features have been analyzed by anthropologists doing field studies in that area, such as Leach, Yalman, Brow, Kloos and Spencer, the best informed of them all; most of them ...

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Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)
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2024-11-18
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https://doi.org/10.58079/12pjt
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Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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CHENA (slash-and-burn) CULTIVATION AND ITS REPRESSION IN COLONIAL CEYLON by Eric P. Meyer

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“Asking villagers to desist from chena cultivation is much the same as asking them to starve to please government” John George Fraser, Ceylon Settlement Officer, diary, 16.02.1902. Chena (slash-and-burn) cultivation is commonly regarded as characteristic of the dry zone of Sri Lanka; its technical, economic, and social features have been analyzed by anthropologists doing field studies in that area, such as Leach, Yalman, Brow, Kloos and Spencer, the best informed of them all; most of them ...

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