Dorsch-methode (English: “Threshing method”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Primitive Atjehse threshing method: trampling sheaves with bare feet while leaning on two sticks.
Translation
Threshing method
Description
Primitive Atjehse threshing method: trampling sheaves with bare feet while leaning on two sticks. Requires easily-detaching grain without sharp protrusions, excluding several superior Java rice varieties.
Significance
The term Dorsch-methode is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. —.