Download or read book The Asian Village written by Robert Orr Whyte and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the potential for rural progress of the Asian village, especially in monsoonal and equatorial areas. Contents include distinctions and relations between rural and urban, origin and evolution of ecosystems involving rural man, location and morphology of villages, social and agrarian patterns, the sociology of labour, land use, rural water use, nutrition, health, child-rearing and rural evolution at present. With 20 diagrams.