Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there.
This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a mountain village in Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes since China's reform and opening-up.
This Volume provides an information relating to research in social sciences at university level for understanding the structural processes over a period of time i.
Este libro busca aportar a la comprensión del proceso de construcción de territorios campesinos en las denominadas zonas de reserva campesina (ZRC) en Colombia, tanto en zonas de colonización, como en aquellas zonas en donde comunidades organizadas están solicitando la aplicación de esta figura jurídica para sus territorios.
Despite increasing disaster risk in South Asian countries, exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards are not yet at the forefront of development agendas.
Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations.
Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia.
A penetrating anthropological inquiry into remote areas as understood by their inhabitants and by the outsiders who encounter them This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas.
A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for-profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States?
Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century.
This anthropological study of a workers village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization.
Uncle Sam's Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poorand what Americans must do to stop it.
Construction of a school building reflected the importance of universal education and a communitys desire to establish permanence in the ever-expanding Western frontier.
Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house.
Poverty as Subsistence explores the "e;propertizing"e; land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations.
Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives.
In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter.
Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures.
Les recenseurs doivent capturer et analyser les informations au niveau géographique le plus détaillé à l’aide des technologies mobiles et géospatiales.
Rural life in North America has changed dramatically since the days of the family farm, when people worked the same land for generations, let their cows graze in pastures and their chickens scratch in dirt, and sold their produce locally.
The book, Five Decades of Economic Development and Social Change in Village India, covers authors works on village India over a span of half a century.
The main and vital objective of this volume is ton make in the book a few selected articles that represent some of the most worthwhile contributions to the Knowledge of Tribal (Native's) Education issues with special reference to India.
The Village and Its Discontents: Meaning and Criticism in Late Modernity is a hopeful collection of essays about villages in Southeast Asia and across the world.
This book divided into six chapters contain is inter alia the analysis of the purpose and logic of the already existing credit institutions, their strengths and weaknesses in achieving the goals for which they were setup, the changing environment which necessitates the setting up of new institutions called Regional Rural Banks, an analysis of their operations at all India level and in the state of Orissa.
