Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas / / ed. by Bernardo Berdichewsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: APTHORPE, RAYMOND,; BARRACLOUGH, SOLON,; BECKFORD, GEORGE L.,; BERDICHEWSKY, BERNARDO,; BERLEANT-SCHILLER, RIVA,; CHONCHOL, JACQUES,; HELLBOM, ANNA-BRITTA,; HUIZER, GERRIT,; KOWALEWSKI, ZBIGNIEW MARCIN,; LIPSCHUTZ, ALEXANDER,; MAFEJE, ARCHIE,; MARTINEZ-ALIER, JUAN,; MKRTUMIAN, YURI I.,; PALMER, GARY B.,; PALMERI, PAOLO,; PILOTTI, FRANCISCO J.,; SABOGAL-WIESSE, JOSÉ R.,; SCOTT, PARRY R.,; SKALNÍK, PETER,; SLATTERY, JOHN B.,; STAHL, PAUL HENRI,; SÁRKÁNY, MIHÁLY,; TADROS, HELMI R.,; YADAVA, J. S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Berdichewsky, Bernardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.) :; 6 plates and 2 maps.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Anthropology and the Peasant Mode of Production -- PART ONE Africa: From Primitive Agriculturalists to Peasants -- Introduction -- Traditional Lifeways and Modernization: Social Transformation in a Niger Village -- Agrarian Revolution and the Land Question in Buganda -- Peasants and Planistrators in Eastern Africa, 1960-1970 -- The Human Aspects of Rural Resettlement Schemes in Egypt -- The Agricultural Resettlement Scheme: A Review of Cases and Theories -- PART TWO Eurasia: Peasant Communities and Modernization -- Introduction -- Socioeconomic Adjustments to Intensive Agriculture in the Tungabhadra Irrigation Project, Mysore State, India -- Communication in an Indian Village -- Changing Life Patterns in the Caucasus: The Contributions of Agriculture and Cattle Breeding -- The Rumanian Farm Household and the Village Community -- Transformation of Peasant Economy: A Hungarian Example -- Modernization of the Slovak Peasantry: Two Carpathian Highland Communities -- Sociocultural Changes Resulting From Road Construction in Areas of Difficult Access -- A Theoretical Study of the Peasantry: Peasants and Laborers in Southern Spain, Cuba, and Highland Peru -- PART THREE Latin America: Peasant Movements and Agrarian Reforms -- Introduction -- SECTION A: COMMUNITIES AND PROLETARIANIZATION -- Introduction -- The Law of the Tribe, the Law of the Nation, and Double Patriotism in Latin America -- Cattle Raising in the Society, Economy, and Ecology of Barbuda Island -- Plantations, Peasants, and Proletariat in the West Indies: Agrarian Capitalism and Alienation -- Group Identification as an Adaptation to Modernization in Brazil -- In the Real Peru: From Feudalism to Bureaucracy -- SECTION Β: LAND INVASIONS AND LAND REFORM -- Introduction -- Agrarian Reform in Chile and Its Impact on Araucanian Indian Communities -- Rural Development Strategy and Agrarian Reform -- Peasant Participation in Agrarian Reform: Mexico, Bolivia, and Venezuela -- The Cultural Dependence of Rural Communities and Peasant Guerrillas -- Ideological Capacitation of the Peasantry in the Context of Revolutionary Agrarian Reform -- Peasants and Bureaucracy in Chilean Agrarian Reform -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects