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Reconceptualizing The Peasantry

Reconceptualizing The Peasantry

Michael Kearney

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1996
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Antropología
ISBN:
9780813309880
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In this book, the author shows how the concept of peasant 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.

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