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The traditional village 'community' is often paraded as a paragon of virtue, and the modern village as a corrupted version of the original. Yet the notion of the traditional village as egalitarian, self-sufficient, autonomous, subsistence-oriented, corporate, peaceful and moral is often at odds with the historic evidence. As such, it presents difficulties when the image is used to construct visions of what 'development' is doing, and should be doing, in rural areas of the developing world. This paper looks at the evidence from South East Asia regarding the origins and structure of village 'communities' in the region, and examines some of the implications for development.
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