Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas

Bernardo Berdichewsky

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9789027978103
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110807738
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• 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
• Sociocultural Change in Upper Urubamba, Peru
• SECTION B: 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