Speaker: Professor James Scott Chair: Professor Jude Howell
This event was recorded on 22 May 2008 in the New Theatre, East Building
Professor Scott argues that the hill peoples of mainland Southeast Asia are fugitive, runaway populations, practising ‘escape agriculture’, ‘escape social structure’ and ‘escape culture’. Jim Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University.
From http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
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An excursion into the history of Japanese studies with William Kelly (Yale)
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