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Agricultural Reason in the Shadow of Subsistence Capitalism

A Rural Ontology from Western India

Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism.

This collection of essays on early 1980s India is one of the few anthropological treatments of agricultural reasoning. It offers a close look at an agrarian society at the pivotal moment of its encounter with capitalist transformation and studies ideas of measurement, sociality, and independence.

140 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2024

Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology


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