| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : 1 illustration |
| Series |
Critical Essays in Anthropology |
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Critical essays in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. San Jeronimo: A Peasant Community? -- Ch. 2. Kinds of Others in the History of Anthropology -- Ch. 3. Peasants and the Antinomies of the Modern Nation-State -- Ch. 4. Romantic Reactions to Modernist Peasant Studies -- Ch. 5. Beyond Peasant Studies: Changing Social Fields of Identity and Theory -- Ch. 6. Differentiation and Identity -- Ch. 7. From Modes of Production to Consumption of Modes: Class, Value, Power, and Resistance -- Ch. 8. 'Peasants' and the New Politics of Representation |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Peasants |
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Peasants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- History.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Peasants.
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| Author |
Anthropology Online
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| LC no. |
96012426 |
| ISBN |
0429966334 |
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