Peasants and Capital
HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory (Verlag)
978-1-914363-22-1 (ISBN)
Over thirty-five years ago, Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s debut ethnography, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy, dared to regard peasants not as vestiges of premodern economies but as instrumental to, and integrated in, a capitalist world system. Combining historical ethnography with an intimate portrait of a banana-producing eastern Caribbean village, this multi-sited study demonstrates how multinational capital thrives on the surplus production of peasant cultivators. At the same time, it investigates how peasantries generate independent conceptions of value and subsistence in the process of building a new postcolonial state in Dominica. This new edition of Peasants and Capital invites anthropologists to revisit the methodological innovations of this multi-scalar study and readers to meditate on the continued vitality of peasant livelihoods in the Caribbean today.
Ryan Cecil Jobson’s new introduction situates this edition in the context of Trouillot’s remarkable life and career. Jobson reminds us of the book’s enduring theoretical and ethnographic significance and asks us to consider how the entanglement of peasants from Dominica in national and world affairs has been impacted by more recent histories, such as the end of preferential markets for Caribbean bananas, the migration of “banana children” to regional and metropolitan urban centers, and the devastation of Dominica by Hurricane Maria.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) was a Haitian anthropologist and professor of anthropology at The University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History and Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World.
Introduction: "Anthropology and the Banana Wars: Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Dominica" By Ryan Cecil Jobson
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Peasants as Part-Economies
THE NATION
Chapter 2: Space: A Patchwork of Enclaves
Chapter 3: Time: An Island in the World Economy
Chapter 4: The Evolution of the Peasant Labor Process: The Past in the Present
Chapter 5: Factions and Strategies
Chapter 6: “I Can Always Eat My Fig”
THE WORLD
Chapter 7: Working for Capital
Chapter 8: The Making of a Transnational
THE VILLAGE
Chapter 9: Wesley Ville La Soye
Chapter 10: “Neither Here nor There”: The Ethnography of Mediation
Chapter 11: The Impact of the World: Hard Cash and Small Change
Chapter 12: Peasants, Part-Peasants, and Change: The Banana Children
Chapter 13: Contemporary Peasantries: Illusions and Hard Choices
Afterword By Schuyler Esprit
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Classics in Ethnographic Theory |
| Einführung | Ryan Cecil Jobson |
| Nachwort | Schuyler Esprit |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 maps, 31 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 767 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-914363-22-1 / 1914363221 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-914363-22-1 / 9781914363221 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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