Title: Reconceptualizing the Peasantry
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Ethnology, Philosophy, Peasantry, History, Peasants, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies
LC classification: GN345 .K43 1996