
System, Structure, and Contradiction
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the 1998 Edition
- References to the 1998 Preface
- Preface
- References to Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- General Theory
- The Marxist Model
- Dialectic
- Transition
- Chapter 2: Specific Theory
- Exchange United and Production Unites
- Alliance and Exchange
- Political Economy of the Minimal Segment
- Religion, Property, and the "Higher Unity
- Relations of Production: Synthesis
- Surplus and the Forces of Production
- Forces of Production
- 1: Organization of Production
- 2: Technology
- 3: Surplus and the Contradiction between Forces and Relations of Production
- Contradictions
- Summary and Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Environment and Technology
- Map 1: The Hill Peoples of the Burma Frontier
- Map 2: Mainland Southeast Asia, Vegetation
- Map 3: Northern Indochina, Vegetation
- Map 4: Burma, Vegetation
- Map 5: Northern Indochina, Rainfall in January
- Map 6: Northern Indochina, Rainfall in July
- Map 7: Northern Indochina, Annual Rainfall
- Map 8: Burma, Rainfall in January
- Map 9: Burma, Rainfall in July
- Map 10: Burma, Annual Rainfall
- Map 11: Burma, Elevation
- Vegetation
- Techno-Economic Zones
- Economics and Ecology: Leach's "Ecological Zones
- Technology: Processes of Production
- Chapter 4: The Kachin
- Local Organization
- Lineage Structure, Property Form, "Religion
- Articulation of Alliance and Descent: Kinship Space
- Gumsa Structure
- Note on the Clan
- Rank Classes
- Slaves
- Summary
- Economic Flows in Gumsa Hierarchies
- Expansion
- Vertical Flows and Stabilization
- Summary
- Note on the "Gradient of Brideprice
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Expansion and Contradiction
- 1: Structure
- 2: Social Reproduction
- 3: Reproduction of Contradictions and the Contradictions of Reproduction
- Territorial Expansion-Kinship-Political Authority
- Forces of Production/Relations of Production
- A Note of Clarification on "Debt
- Debt and the Meaning of Rank Distinctions
- The Hierarchy of Contradictions
- The Hierarchy of Constraints
- Gumlao Revolts
- The Dumsa and the Mythology of Revolt
- Summary
- Chapter 6: The Short Cycle and the Long Cycle
- Secondary Contradictions: Slaves (mayam)
- The Short Cycle: Gumsa/Gumlao
- Gumsa/Gumlao: Reproduction of the Short Cycle
- The Long Cycle
- Short Cycles, Long Cycles, and the Distribution of Kachin Political Systems
- A Note on Linguistic Diversity and Theoretical Analysis
- Political Systems
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Evolution and Devolution
- Feudal vs. Asiatic Modes
- 1: Devolution
- Topological Transformation
- Structural Dominance of Horizontal Exchange
- Expansion and Conflict in the Horizontal Exchange System
- Gumsa/Gumlao
- Further Devolution
- Gumsa/Gumlao
- Structural Inversion: The Sacred Founder
- Headhunting, the Wa, End of the Road
- The Wa
- Summary
- 2: Evolution: The Asiatic State-Some Suggestions
- The Evolution and Dominance of the Vertical Exchange Structure
- Summary
- Conclusion I: Evolution, Mystification, and Ideological Bias
- Conclusion II: Residence and Evolution: Mystification or Materialism
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Implications of the Marxist Model
- Synchrony and Diachrony
- Transformational Models of Evolutionary Processes
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Appendix I: Religion as Economy and Economy as Religion
- Notes to Appendix I
- References to Appendix I
- Appendix II: Generalized Change, Theocracy, and the Opium Trade
- References to Appendix II
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