..., Anil was one of those sought by coup forces operating in Papaye during the coup’s first days. By the time a 1994 US military intervention reinstalled Aristide, Anil returned to UEH to study for a second degree in social service with a thesis offering a sociological analysis of peasant life...

... supporter of the Puerto Rican independence movement and serves on the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago. © 2017 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2017 peasant life Puerto Rico diasporic politics racism nationalism independence movement AIDS...

... élémentaires de la vie religieuse [Elementary forms of religious life Price-Mars set out to refute the colo- nial construction of peasant belief and ritual as “sorcery” and to methodically argue for their status as a religion, albeit a “very primitive” one, “formed...

..., the Journal of Peasant Studies rather than Agricultural History. The ambivalence stemmed in part from the aims of the course. As well as offering a seminar for advanced undergraduates that would focus on rural folk and life ways, I had a second goal in mind...

... folklore and Jamaican dialect verse in two books: the first, Songs of Jamaica, was primarily a celebration of a rural Jamaican peasant life free of social bigotry, whereas the second, Constab Ballads, treated the intra- racial class and color conflicts between darker- and lighter-skinned blacks within...

..., the degree to which coerced exchange disrupted village life and pushed peasants out of their agrarian collectivities into the larger market economy varied widely from region to region. Enterprising authorities opened up pockets of compulsory consumption in remote areas where overland transport...

... more than the West Indian sugar plant- ers-in order to earn enough to return to peasant life, that is, to buy a STRUCTURE VS. EXPERIENCE?/189 plot of land in Jamaica or to become an independent banana planter in Costa Rica” (42). In spite of the general...

... ownership and planning, technol- ogy could be harnessed to the goals of freedom and abundance for all. He saw peasant life as inherently backward and antisocial. He could admit that the South's mill villages constituted a "benevolent despotism" and that a generation of farmers-turned-mill-workers...

... with peasant life in the Pagnol films7 Berri was not seeking to re-create a specific historical reality; he rejected out of hand the idea of bringing a historical consultant on board. Although the film is clearly set in the past, Berri went out of his way to assure that the viewer could not situate...

... with peasant life in the Pagnol films7 Berri was not seeking to re-create a specific historical reality; he rejected out of hand the idea of bringing a historical consultant on board. Although the film is clearly set in the past, Berri went out of his way to assure that the viewer could not situate...

... altogether from discussions of moral economy. The "rich informal associational life" that now holds Scott's attention creates "horizontal bonds" among peasants. Scholars such as Migdal and Tullis are criticized for positing a peasantry without "social organization except for vertical ties...

.... Montaillou is perhaps the richest, best-rounded, and most sys- tematic account of precapitalist sexual and familial life, and one of the very few based upon the direct testimony of peasants and artisans. This makes it an indispensable point of reference in the present debates concerning...

... bring. The point is made again midway through the film, in the looks exchanged between the peasants arriving in Toulouse and the bourgeoises, looking down from their second-story windows. The peasants gawk at city life; we read in the expressions on their faces and in Pierre’s swiveling...

... and highlights the persistence of old fashioned methods in France.2 Agulhon and Corbin take a different tack, seeing French history not as some second best outcome, but as the positive issue of a political struggle in which artisans and peasants figured alongside wage workers. The interpretation...

... communities” in highland Indian America. These peasant communities, although never fully “closed” to outsiders, and possibly experiencing decisive erosion and transformation during the last twenty years, have been encountered repeatedly by anthropologists throughout much of the Andean...

..., then, local life on the western side of the Yanamarca Valley had taken on the qualities of a classic, traditional patron-client society. In exchange for serving as intermedi- aries between the larger region and the community, an elite of wealthy peasants enjoyed the economic, social, and political...

.... Basing Facing the Storm on the four life histories, Keegan shows that black peasants were not necessarily victims of the avalanche of legislation which was promulgated in order to push them off the land. The state’s final victory was hard won. Black peasants fought back and managed to stay...

... regions thickly populated by self-sufficient peasants, the activation or reinforcement of extractive institutions required dominant elites to establish “collaborative” relationships with native lords who controlled access to peasant labor, or alternatively, to eliminate entirely Indian leaders...

... tailored to the rural audience. One peasant from Xianghe County in Hebei wondered, “I think there should be more crosstalk shows [ xiangsheng ] on rural life, why can’t I hear any?” Another, from Yi County, requested more traditional operas that promoted friendship between commune members and caring...

... a spotlight on Jofre as he stood on the frontlines of the peasant struggle for land, risking his life and liberty for this very serious cause. As in the Novos Rumos story quoted briefly above, no PCB account thoroughly examined the details of the shooting or the dispute. Instead, the party put...