Reconceptualizing The Peasantry
Anthropology In Global Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2019
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-0-367-31760-7 (ISBN)
Description
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, Michae
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31760-7 (9780367317607)
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Person
Michael Kearney is professor of anthropology at the University of California at Riverside.
Content
Introduction -- San Jeronimo: 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