1st Edition
Reconceptualizing The Peasantry Anthropology In Global Perspective
By Michael Kearney
Copyright 1996
224 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- San Jerónimo: A Peasant Community? -- Kinds of Others in the History of Anthropology -- Peasants and the Antinomies of the Modern Nation-State -- Romantic Reactions to Modernist Peasant Studies -- Beyond Peasant Studies: Changing Social Fields of Identity and Theory -- Differentiation and Identity -- From Modes of Production to Consumption of Modes: Class, Value, Power, and Resistance -- 'Peasants' and the New Politics of Representation
Biography
Michael Kearney
