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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Jennie Marcelle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Peasants > Political activity > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Peasants > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department) > Societies, etc.
Community organization > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Social values > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Folk songs, French Creole > Social aspects > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Folk songs, Creole > Social aspects > Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Paysannerie > Activité politique > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Département)
Paysannerie > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Département) > Associations.
Organisation communautaire > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Département)
Valeurs sociales > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Département)
Chansons folkloriques créoles > Aspect social > Haïti > Grand'Anse (Département)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Community organization
Peasants > Political activity
Peasants > Societies, etc.
Social values
Kleinbauer
Ländlicher Raum
Sozialer Wandel
Haiti > Grand'Anse (Department)
Haiti
Chante pwen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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