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      Reconceptualizing The Peasantry

      by Michael Kearney

      In this book, the author shows how the concept of peasant 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.

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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, Michae

      Table of Contents

      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

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      ISBN0367317605
      Author Michael Kearney
      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Year 2019
      ISBN-10 0367317605
      ISBN-13 9780367317607
      Format Hardcover
      Imprint Routledge
      Place of Publication London
      Country of Publication United Kingdom
      DEWEY 307.72
      Publication Date 2019-09-05
      Short Title Reconceptualizing the Peasantry
      Language English
      UK Release Date 2019-09-05
      AU Release Date 2019-09-05
      NZ Release Date 2019-09-05
      Subtitle Anthropology In Global Perspective
      Alternative 9780813309873
      Audience Tertiary & Higher Education
      Pages 228

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