Ref ID:	26260
Ref Type:	Book Section in a Series
Authors:	Wong, Diana
Title:	Kinship and the domestic development cycle in a Kedah village, Malaysia
Date:	1991
Source:	Cognation and social organization in Southeast Asia
Place of Publication:	Leiden
Publisher:	KITLV Press
Abstract:	p.201 "...control over familial labour is both an expression of and a contributory factor to the process of social differentiation in the rural economy. The poorlose' their children and thus their ability to increase resources, whereas the wealthy can profitably `bind' them by means of their resources in property. Property thus seems not onlyu to be valued for its won direct economic significance byt also for its possible exchange against lavour services in a local economy still characterized by a scarcity of labour. One thus has a situation contrary to the Chayanovian proposition that access to resources dependts mainly on control over familial labour and that this control is intimately connected with the demographic composition of the household. What we see in Kampong Gelung Rambai is that control over familial labour depends on actual control over land and other economic resources, therby generating progressive social differentiation within the village."
Date Created:	3/13/2001
Editors:	Hüsken, Frans Kemp, Jeremy
Volume:	145
Page Start:	193
Page End:	201
Series Title:	Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde