Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge - Softcover

Scott, James C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300085028 ISBN 13: 9780300085020

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The contributors’ fresh analyses will broaden the perspectives of readers with interests as wide-ranging as rural sociology, environmentalism, political science, history, anthropology, economics, and art history.

The ten studies recast and expand what is known about rural society and agrarian issues, examining such topics as poverty, subsistence, cultivation, ecology, justice, art, custom, law, ritual life, cooperation, and state action. Each contribution provides a point of departure for new study, encouraging deeper thinking across disciplinary boundaries and frontiers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Yale Agrarian Studies Series, James C. Scott, series editor. The Yale ISPS Series

About the Author:

James C. Scott is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and director of the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Seeing Like a State, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Weapons of the Weak, and The Moral Economy of the Peasant, all published by Yale University Press. Nina Bhatt has worked as rural sociologist for the World Bank in Nepal and Washington, D.C., and as micro-enterprise consultant for the Ford Foundation in India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300085028
• ISBN 13: 9780300085020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Bhatt Nina