Myths of Modernity - Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Dore Klappentext Combines Marxist and postmodern approaches to argue that patriarchy has provided the central organizing principle of Nicaraguan agrarian labor systems. Zusammenfassung Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that history to argue that the coffee boom impeded rather than expedited the country's transition to capitalism Inhaltsverzeichnis 2. Indians under Colonialism and Postcolonialism 33 3. Patriarchal Power in the Pueblos 53 4. The Private Property Revolution 69 5. Gendered Contradictions of Liberalism: Ethnicity, Property, and Households 97 6. Debt Peonage in Diriomo: Forced Labor Revisited 110 7. Patriarchy and Peonage 149 Conclusion 164 Epilogue: History Matters—The Sandinistas’ Myth of Modernity 172 Notes 181 Glossary 213 Bibliography 217 Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Who Controls the Past Controls the Future 1 1. Theories of Capitalism, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity 17 Index 239

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• Authors: Brook Thomas, Elizabeth Dore, Elizabeth W. Dore, Elizabeth Dore, Octave Mannoni
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822336860
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3686-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropologie, Kulturwissenschaften, Nicaragua