Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process. Challenging the belief that ethnography is theoretically weak, the author provides a fresh perspective on rural workers' responses to the development of transnational production systems and the transformations of agrarian structures brought about by the complex interactions of global and local forces. In questioning ingrained...

Riel Del Toro is a man of tradition, an elected official within the vampire community. He is in the midst of returning from a much needed vacation with Sisco and Natalie when an acquaintance brings news that is sure to have dire consequences. With knowledge confirming that Natalie's human son, Nathaniel, is on the hunt, Riel must return to the States. He has a job as Museum curator to get back to and, now, more vampiric business that he had hoped to avoid. Natalie's son has always posed a problem, but one he could ignore until now. Riel has to decide how best to handle the situation for all...