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100			_aMishra, Arima
245			_aLocal perceptions of famine: study of a village in Orissa
260			_c2005
300			_ap.572-78.
362			_a5 Feb
520			_aThe sociological approach to famines focuses on the study of the affected community and its social responses to the event. But this one-sided focus neglects the responses of other sections of society who, while remaining relatively unaffected, are in ways instrumental in the creation of famine. Thus, the question of how famine is enacted and rendered persistent in a society is yet to be fully answered. This paper draws on observations of a field study conducted in a village in Orissa's Kalahandi district and looks at institutionalised socio-economic relationships and community transactions in the process of production. Famine, in this theoretical construct, appears as a long-drawn process of socio-economic and biological decline, in contrast to accepted notions of famine as an `event'. - Reproduced.
650			_aFamine - India - Orissa
650			_aFamine
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a64241
999			_c64241 _d64241