The Barefoot Anthropologist: The Highlands of Champa and Vietnam in the Words of Jacques Dournes

Yet this harmonizing power extended well beyond the frontiers of the Jarai territory in Vietnam and Cambodia and served to maintain peace, stability, and the viability of commerce along specific trade routes that wound their way through the highlands. [...]the economy of the local practice of slash and burn is remarkable in the simplicity of its logic and rationale (p. 125).