Reconceptualizing the Peasantry
Michael Kearney · 1996
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About the book
Reconceptualizing the Peasantry looks at rural society in general and considers the problematic distinction between rural and urban. Most definitions of and debates about peasants have focused on their presumed social, economic, cultural, and political characteristics, but Kearney articulates the way in which peasants define themselves in a rapidly changing world. In the process, he develops ethnographic and political forms of representation that correspond to contemporary postpeasant identities. Moving beyond a reconsideration of peasantry, the book situates anthropology in global context, showing how the discipline reconstructs itself and its subjects according to changing circumstances.
First sentence: my first major fieldwork effort was conducted in state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico in the 1960s in Ixtepeji, a Zapotec "town of peasant farmers" (kearney 1972:4)
Book details
- Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Westview Pr (Short Disc)
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780813337029
Data source: Wikidata
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