When the Hands Are Many : Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti /

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In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression, Haitian peasants, widely known as some of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Jennie Marcelle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sozialer Wandel
Ländlicher Raum
Kleinbauer
Social values.
Peasants > Societies, etc.
Peasants > Political activity.
Community organization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Chansons folkloriques creoles > Aspect social > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Departement)
Valeurs sociales > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Departement)
Organisation communautaire > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Departement)
Paysannerie > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Departement) > Associations.
Paysannerie > Activite politique > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Departement)
Folk songs, Creole > Social aspects > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Folk songs, French Creole > Social aspects > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Social values > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Community organization > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Peasants > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department) > Societies, etc.
Peasants > Political activity > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Haiti
Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction. "Americans Don't Have Democracy!" Background and Approach. The Haitian "Peasantry" Bamon and Tisous. Linguistic Issues
  • 2. Persistent Legacies. Predatory Parasitism. Interventions from "Across the Water" Risking Hope. New Legacies. Persistent Dissidence
  • 3. Melodic Machetes. Rural Footpaths. Sociopolitical Poetics. Agricultural Work Parties. Mardi Gras and Rara Festivities. Gwoupman Peyizan Meetings. A Refugee Camp. Recording Studios. Reflections on the Chante Pwen-s
  • 4. Hoes Striking in Unison: Cooperative Labor and Community Spirit. Taking Up the Hoe. Yonn Ede Lot. Sharing Labor and Resources as a Way of Life. Collective Agricultural Labor. "The Strike of a Solitary Hoe Makes No Music" The Konbit and the Kove.

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