The sociology of production in rural Malay society / Conner Bailey

This work is the culmination of the author's five years' experience of living and working in rural Malay villages. He seeks to examine, how, if at all, social relationships are affected by differing production activities of each community. His comparative study looks at fishing, rice farming and rubber tapping. The contents include •1 - Basic Questions, •2 - Rural Malay Society, •3 - Gong Guncil: A Rice Farming Community in Trengganu, •4 - Mangkok: A Fishing Village in Trengganu, •5 - Kampung Dusun: A Smallholder Rubber Tapping Community in Kedah, •6 - The Material Context of Production: Natural and Technological Resources & •7 - Social Consequences of Economic Organisation. 226 pages. There are also tables, figures, maps, black and white pictures, a glossary, bibliography and index.