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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.
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
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