Defining Peasants
Author : Teodor Shanin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631150374
Reconceptualizing The Peasantry
Author : Michael Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429977417
Book 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, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and post?Cold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative theoretical views.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.
Peasants and Peasant Societies
Author : Teodor Shanin
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Peasants
ISBN :
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Peasants in World History
Author : Eric Vanhaute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317807677
Book Description
This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World History analyzes the multiple transformations of peasant life through history by focusing on three primary areas: the organization of peasant societies, their integration within wider societal structures, and the changing connections between local, regional and global processes. Peasants have been a vital component in human history over the last 10,000 years, with nearly one-third of the world’s population still living a peasant lifestyle today. Their role as rural producers of ever-new surpluses instigated complex and often-opposing processes of social and spatial change throughout the world. Eric Vanhaute frames this social change in a story of evolving peasant frontiers. These frontiers provide a global comparative-historical lens to look at the social, economic and ecological changes within village-systems, agrarian empires and global capitalism. Bringing the story of the peasantry up through the modern period and looking to the future, the author offers a succinct overview with students in mind. This book is recommended reading to anyone interested in the history and future of peasantries and is a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate courses in World History, Global Economic History, Global Studies and Rural Sociology.
Peasant Intellectuals
Author : Steven M. Feierman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1990-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0299125238
Book Description
Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society or do peasants act in a world where elites define political issues? Peasant Intellectuals is based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 and includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society. Steven Feierman provides the history of the struggles to define the most basic issues of public political discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region of Tanzania. Feierman also shows that peasant society contains a rich body of alternative sources of political language from which future debates will be shaped.
Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire
Author : Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0691198403
Book Description
This book applies scientific demographic methods to the study of Byzantine peasantry in a period of feudalization. The author shows that the number of peasants declined in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for reasons that had less to do with catastrophes than with internal social developments. Her book makes the first thorough analysis of this rural society, and one that draws on all available sources. It focuses on village structure and family or kinship groups as well as social and demographic trends. Angeliki Laiou-Thomadakis is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Constantinople and the Latins (Harvard) Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Rational Peasant
Author : Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520341627
Book Description
Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is primarily responsible for ensuring the welfare of its members.
Peasant Society
Author : Jack M. Potter
Publisher :
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
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Peasants and Peasant Societies
Author : Teodor Shanin
Publisher : Harmondsworth : Penguin
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Compilation of writings on rural workers and peasant movements throughout the world - covers topics such as social structure, economic implications, political aspects, cultural factors and traditions, agrarian reform, government policies, etc. References.
Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment
Author : Cristina Adams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048180998
Book Description
Amazonia is never quite what it seems. Despite regular attention in the media and numerous academic studies the Brazilian Amazon is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. Often left invisible are the families who are making a living from the rivers and forests of the region. Broadly characterizing these people as peasants Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment seeks to bring together research by anthropologists, historians, political ecologists and biologists. A new paradigm emerges which helps understand the way in which Amazonian modernity has developed. This book addresses a comprehensive range of questions from the politics of conservation and sustainable development to the organization of women’s work and the diet and health of Amazonian people. Apart from offering an analysis of a neglected aspect of Amazonia this collection represents a unique interdisciplinary exercise on the nature of one of the most beguiling regions of the world.
