Talk:James Scott
Hill people were not undeveloped but fleeing the slavery of the nation states.
Stationary Agriculture was needed to enslave the people.
This divided the people into valley and hill people.
crops were more root types like cassava rather than rice or grain.
Swiddening An area cleared for temporary cultivation by cutting and burning the vegetation. Permaculture, food forests.
Dividable social culture. "Divide that ye be not governed" [Berber proverb].
Had writing but went to oral traditions for several reasons.
Health in city states poor, with more disease and poorer diet. Hill people without the state are healthier and more moral.
Only with the rise of the organize state was mass warfare.
Last name before tax court were rare.
The skills of living without the state should be cultivates.
Walls of civilization were made to keep people in.
After 1945 ended the escape from the nation states.