Reconceptualizing the peasantry
Subtitle: anthropology in global perspective
By: Michael Kearney.
Series: Critical essays in anthropology
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- History; Peasantry
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.