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A Socio-economic History of Two Villages

In: Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019

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  • Akio Takahashi

    (University of Tokyo)

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In this chapter, I analyse closely the socio-economic transformation of two villages with different ecologies and histories. The villages are located about 500 km apart from each other on the same longitude, with one village in the north and the other in the south. I have been doing research in these villages since 1986. My analysis is based on the individual household surveys that I did through interviews in Burmese language while living in the villages. At first, using various academic and local materials, and documents of the colonialcolonial government offices, I discuss the history of the villages, which may date back to as far as the 11th century. This discussion includes the climate, the topography, and the changes in population and ethnic compositionethnic composition over a century. Then, based on the data from my household surveys conducted in 1987, 1994, and 2013, I describe in detail the changes over 26 years in the villages. These changes include occupational structure, land tenure, farming methods, agricultural productivity, price structure, composition of the non-agricultural sector, and everyday livelihoods. In addition, I share the results from my participant observation research for the period 2013–2019, to describe the changes in the social economy of the village, and to clarify the reality of de-agrarianisation. de-agrarianisation

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  • Akio Takahashi, 2023. "A Socio-economic History of Two Villages," Studies in Economic History, in: Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019, chapter 0, pages 65-141, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stechp:978-981-99-3272-6_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-3272-6_4
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