Peasant livelihood : studies in economic anthropology and cultural ecology / Rhoda Halperin, James Dow, editors
1977, First Edition. New York : St. Martin's Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430427
Physical description; x, 332 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography, p. 298-319. Contents; Introduction : the substantive economy in peasant societies / Rhoda Halperin -- Pt. 1. Production in peasant societies. Against a definition of peasantries : agrarian production in Andean Peru / Benjamin Orlove -- Irrigation farming in the Andes : evolutionary implications / William P. Mitchell -- The myth of the idle peasant : employment in a subsistence economy / Stephen B. Brush -- Redistribution in Chan Kom : a case for Mexican political economy / Rhoda Halperin -- Pt. 2. Distribution in peasant societies. Distributive mechanisms in the Aztec economy / Frances F. Berdan -- The economic networks of Bolivian political brokers : revolutionary road to fame and fortune / Madeline Barbara Leons -- How marketing systems affect economic opportunity in agrarian societies / Carol A. Smith -- Reciprocity and redistribution in the Indian village / Walter Neale -- Mesoamerican trade and its role in the emergence of civilization / Lee. A Parsons and Barbara Price -- Pt. 3. The integration of peasant economies. Serfdom and its demise in the Fouta-Djallon / Bill Derman -- Inequality among peasants : the forms and uses of reciprocal exchange in Andean Peru / Benjamin Orlove -- Religion in the organization of a Mexican peasant economy / James Dow -- Mythos and pathos : some unpleasantries on peasantries / Anthony Leeds -- On the theory of non-capitalist economic systems / A. V. Chayanov -- Conclusion : a substantive approach to peasant livelihood / Rhoda Halperin. Subjects; Peasants Latin America ; Case studies. Agriculture Economic aspects Latin America ; Case studies. Peasantry Latin America Case studies. Agriculture Economic aspects. Peasants. Rural conditions.
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