Author: Firth, Raymond
Title: Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy
Description: London, Kegan Paul, (1946). dustwrapper, orig. cloth. 22x14cm, xii,354 pp, Light binding corner bumps. Some top page-edge soil.. 13pp photoplates,folding map. Rubbed. Flyleaf foxed. Dustwrapper soiled. Good. ¶ Contents: The Fishing Industry in Malay and Indonesia; Economics of the Industry in Two Malay States (Kelantan and Trengganu); Structure of a Sample Fishing Community; Planning and Organization of Fishing Activities; Ownership of Equipment and Management of Capital; The Credit System in Financing Production; Marketing Organization; The System of Distributing Earnings; Output and Levels of Income; Fishermen in the General Peasant Economy; Fisheries Development and the Malay Peasant; Appendices: Note on Problems and Technique in a Field Study of a Peasant Economy; Summary of Boats and Fishing Equipment in Malayan Waters, 1938-9; Summary of Fishing- Boats and Nets in Kelantan and Trengganu, About 1939; Variations in the Scheme of Distribution in the Major Forms of Fishing; The Daganang ( Dagangan) System in Trengganu and North Pahang; Weekly Records of Sales of Fish from Lift-nets, Perupok Area, during a Half-Year; Sales of Fish from Pukat Dalam (Mackerel-nets), Perupok Area, during a Half-year; Commoner Kinds of Fish taken in East Coast Malayan Waters; Glossary of Kelantan Terms Associated with Fishing.

Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Social Sociology, Economics Kelantan, Ethnography, Ethnology, Southeast Asia, Malaya Malaysia, Peasant Economy, Fishing Industry