Peasant Society
Author: Jack M. Potter
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1038
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Peasant Society
Author: Jack M. Potter
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire
Author: Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-03-12
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0691198403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies scientific demographic methods to the study of Byzantine peasantry in a period of feudalization. The author shows that the number of peasants declined in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for reasons that had less to do with catastrophes than with internal social developments. Her book makes the first thorough analysis of this rural society, and one that draws on all available sources. It focuses on village structure and family or kinship groups as well as social and demographic trends. Angeliki Laiou-Thomadakis is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Constantinople and the Latins (Harvard) Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment
Author: Cristina Adams
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1402092830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmazonia is never quite what it seems. Despite regular attention in the media and numerous academic studies the Brazilian Amazon is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. Often left invisible are the families who are making a living from the rivers and forests of the region. Broadly characterizing these people as peasants Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment seeks to bring together research by anthropologists, historians, political ecologists and biologists. A new paradigm emerges which helps understand the way in which Amazonian modernity has developed. This book addresses a comprehensive range of questions from the politics of conservation and sustainable development to the organization of women’s work and the diet and health of Amazonian people. Apart from offering an analysis of a neglected aspect of Amazonia this collection represents a unique interdisciplinary exercise on the nature of one of the most beguiling regions of the world.
The Little Community and Peasant Society and Culture
Author: Robert Redfield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989-03-15
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0226706702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume combines two classic works of anthropology. The Little Community draws on the author's own notable studies of the villages of Tepoztlan and Chan Kom to explore the means by which scientists try to understand human communities. It contains, wrote Margaret Mead, "the essence of Robert Redfield's multifaceted contributions to the place of community studies in social science." Peasant Society and Culture outlines a speculative foundation for the emergence of anthropology from the study of isolated primitive tribes.
Peasant Intellectuals
Author: Steven M. Feierman
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1990-11-14
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0299125238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society or do peasants act in a world where elites define political issues? Peasant Intellectuals is based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 and includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society. Steven Feierman provides the history of the struggles to define the most basic issues of public political discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region of Tanzania. Feierman also shows that peasant society contains a rich body of alternative sources of political language from which future debates will be shaped.
China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society
Author: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-20
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 131728545X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides a ‘bottom-up view’ of China’s agriculture, showing how the many millions of Chinese peasants make a living. It presents a vivid description of the mechanisms used by rural households to defend and sustain their livelihoods, increase their agricultural production and improve the quality of their lives. The authors examine the newly emerging trajectories of entrepreneurial and capitalist farming and assess whether such alternatives will be able to meet the enormous social, economic and environmental challenges that China faces. The book also explores the paradigm that has underpinned the organisation and development of China’s agriculture from ancient times to the present day. This shows the importance of balancing in the Chinese model as compared to the one-sided imposition of continual modernization in the western model. It is argued that such balancing is at the core of the current Sannong policy, referring to the three ruralities of food sovereignty, wellbeing for peasant households and an attractive countryside.
Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu
Author: M. G. Swift
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1000320723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the performances of 1928-9 with those witnessed by Professor Firth on his second visit to Tikopia in 1952. There is a specially written Epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on a third visit by the author during the summer of 1966.
The Rational Peasant
Author: Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979-06-11
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780520039544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[This provacative reinterpretation of Vietnamese history in particular and peasant society in general will be of wide interest to political scientists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, development planners, and Asian scholars].
Peasent Society And Culture
Author: Robert Redfield
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781016615709
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