Swidden, Sawah, and In-between: Agricultural Transformation in Borneo

The change from swidden to sawah cultivation in Tara'n Dayak villages in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, is presented as a long-term, complex incremental process in which distinct, unstable, and often confusing production technologies figure as transitional forms. The transitional phases are discus...

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Published inHuman ecology : an interdisciplinary journal Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 3 - 20
Main Authors Padoch, Christine, Emily Harwell, Adi Susanto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Plenum Publishing Corporation 01.03.1998
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Agricultural land
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Agroecology
Agroforestry
Crop harvesting
Crops
Dryland farming
History
Peanuts
Rice
Shifting cultivation
Sustainable agriculture
Transitions
West Kalimantan Indonesia
West Kalimantan Indonesia
Indonesia
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Summary:The change from swidden to sawah cultivation in Tara'n Dayak villages in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, is presented as a long-term, complex incremental process in which distinct, unstable, and often confusing production technologies figure as transitional forms. The transitional phases are discussed in terms of their efficiency and sustainability. It is argued that the failure to perceive and understand long-term processes of agricultural change may result in both misinterpretation of technological patterns and environmental variables, as well as of rules of labor and resource sharing.
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ISSN:0300-7839
1572-9915
DOI:10.1023/A:1018740615905