Work

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

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: “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 ...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/12pjt

Author: EPM

Language: English

Topic: Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Subfield: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6899090911

Cites:

Cited by:

Related to: