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Informed by Eric Wolf's Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf's approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf's political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith's reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.
List of contents
Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Lesley Gill, Leigh Binford and Steve Striffler Chapter 1. The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
Aaron Kappeler Chapter 2. Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador's Countryside
Steve Striffler Chapter 3. At the Crossroads of Power
Lesley Gill Chapter 4. The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El Salvador
Leigh Binford Chapter 5. Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural Mexico
Casey Walsh Chapter 6. Peasant Wars in Brazil
Cliff Welch Chapter 7. Forgetting Peasants: History, "Indigeneity," and the Anthropology of Revolution in Bolivia
Forrest Hylton Afterword: Reflection: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual Today
Gavin Smith Index
About the author
Lesley Gill teaches anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of
A Century of Violence in a Red City (2016, Duke University Press) and
The School of the Americas (2004, Duke University Press).
