SWIDDEN, SAWAH, AND IN-BETWEEN - AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN BORNEO

The change from swidden to sawah cultivation in Tara'n Dayak villages in West Kalimantan, indonesia, is presented as a long-term, complex in cremental process in which distinct, unstable and often confusing prod uction technologies figure as transitional forms. The transitional pha ses are discussed in terms of their efficiency and sustainability. It is argued that the failure to perceive and understand long-term proces ses of agricultural change may result in both misinterpretation of tec hnological patterns and environmental variables, as well as of rules o f labor and resource sharing.