The concept of peasant has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and postCold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative theoretical...
The concept of peasant has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilit...
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 title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of his...
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology...
Michael Kearney analyses the prohibition of propaganda for war in international law and examines the potential of international law to prevent war by proposing that 'direct and public incitement to aggression' be included as a crime in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Michael Kearney analyses the prohibition of propaganda for war in international law and examines the potential of international law to prevent war by ...
This volume will be of interest to scholars examining the relationship between culture and identity, concepts of individual and group agency in multicultural settings, and the effect that our globalising world has on regional cultural systems and local communities. "From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward "grew out of research presented at the "3rd Global Conference of Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging "held by Inter-Disciplinary.net at Mansfield College, Oxford University in September 2009. The conference provided a platform for researchers from diverse regions...
This volume will be of interest to scholars examining the relationship between culture and identity, concepts of individual and group agency in multic...
