Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainland Southeast Asia (Monographs in Southeast Asian Studies)

By Robbins Burling

Book Overview

Hill Farms and Padi Fields portrays the peoples of Southeast Asia their long, rich history and their ways of life today. Exploring the cultures of these peoples, the author, Robbins Burling, considers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881044009
• ISBN13: 9781881044000
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a classic in Southeast Asian anthropology

Although this book is somewhat out of date (first published in 1965), it continues to be a good general introduction for students of Southeast Asian societies. There are two major drawbacks in my opinion -- first, as I said, the book is out of date since the many years of warfare in the region have had a profound effects on the peoples in this region. Second, the author devotes only one chapter to the numerous hill tribes. The book is geared toward state-level societies in the lowlands. At any rate, the reader will come away with a good general understanding of state-level societies in mainland Southeast Asia. It's a good starting point for further study.