A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines - Softcover

Eder, James F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824822137 ISBN 13: 9780824822132

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1999

Synopsis

A Generation Later moves beyond analytical models of rural change that focus on the peasant/agricultural aspect of rural communities and makes a convincing case for an approach that integrates farm and nonfarm occupations and does justice to the conditions of occupational multiplicity that characterize, to an increasing extent, many of the rural communities in Asia. In this context, it challenges conventional (and simplistic) "peasant to proletarian" views of change. Rather than finding a dreary and dispirited landscape of sameness and hardship, it offers some empirical support for amore optimistic view of the region's future, one of growing household prosperity and widespread individual opportunity.

About this title

About the Author:

James F. Eder is professor of anthropology at Arizona State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0824822137
• ISBN 13: 9780824822132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208