Reconceptualizing the Peasantry

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.

המשפט הראשון: 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)

שנה

1996

שפה

English

הוצאה

Westview Pr (Short Disc)

מהדורות

7

עמודים

224

ISBN

9780813337029

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata