Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective

by Michael Kearney

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813309875
• ISBN13: 9780813309873
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.