Wagering the Land |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
1 INTRODUCTION |
• | Abatan, Buguias, April 15, 1986 |
• | The Transformation of Buguias Livelihood |
Commercialization and Local Change |
• | Commercial Agriculture and Environmental Degradation |
• | Commercialization and Redistributive Feasts |
• | Theoretical Underpinnings |
• | Field Methods |
• | Identifying Buguias in the Ethnographic Landscape |
• | Overview |
PART I PREWAR BUGUIAS |
2 Food, Fuel, and Fiber: Human Environmental Relations in Prewar Buguias |
3 Social Relations: Power and Labor |
4 Religion: The Role of the Ancestors |
5 Commercial and Political Relations |
Interregnum: The War |
PART II VITALITY AND VULNERABILITY: FLUCTUATIONS IN THE POSTWAR ECONOMY, 1946–1986 |
• | Introduction |
6 The Establishment of Commercial Vegetable Agriculture |
7 The Sociology and Economics of Vegetable Production, 1946–1972 |
8 Economic and Ecological Crisis |
9 Social Conflict and Political Struggle |
10 Religion in Modern Buguias |
11 Conclusion: Understanding Buguias's Aberrant Development |
Notes |
GLOSSARY |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
INDEX |