Kahn, Joel S.
Peasant Ideologies in the Third World
In this review of recent work 1 by anthropologists, sociologists, and historians on peasant ideologies in the Third World, I argue that while a relatively wide range of foci and theories are manifest in the literature appearing in the last five or six years, it may be possible to discern a general tendency, which might be described as the "discovery" of peasant ideology. To make the point somewhat less dramatically, we might suggest that Western scholarship has increasingly tended to stress the positive features of peasantries in general and peasant ideologies, worldviews, and cu ltures in particular. In fact, this is not a discovery at all but a rediscovery, since these tendencies parallel in important ways intellectual trends manifest in earlier periods in the history of Western thinking on the agrarian question.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Kahn, Joel S. |
| Subjects |
Antropologia
India Terzo Mondo Contadini Ideologia
Anthropology
India Third world Peasants Ideology |
