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Reconceptualizing The Peasantry - Anthropology In Global Perspective (Paperback, New)
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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, 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.
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