This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology. It engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront: becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodolo…
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American a…
"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 Kear…