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Author Smith, Jennie Marcelle.

Title When the hands are many : community organization and social change in rural Haiti / Jennie Marcelle Smith.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction. "Americans Don't Have Democracy!" Background and Approach. Haitian "Peasantry" Bamon and Tisous. Linguistic Issues -- 2. Persistent Legacies. Predatory Parasitism. Interventions from "Across the Water" Risking Hope. New Legacies. Persistent Dissidence -- 3. Melodic Machetes. Rural Footpaths. Sociopolitical Poetics. Agricultural Work Parties. Mardi Gras and Rara Festivities. Gwoupman Peyizan Meetings. A Refugee Camp. Recording Studios. Reflections on the Chante Pwen-s -- 4. Hoes Striking in Unison: Cooperative Labor and Community Spirit. Taking Up the Hoe. Yonn Ede Lot. Sharing Labor and Resources as a Way of Life. Collective Agricultural Labor. "The Strike of a Solitary Hoe Makes No Music" Konbit and the Kove.
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Subject Peasants -- Political activity -- Haiti -- Grand'Anse (Department)
Peasants -- Political activity.
Haiti -- Grand'Anse (Department)
Peasants.
Peasants -- Haiti -- Grand'Anse (Department) -- Societies, etc.
Community organization -- Haiti -- Grand'Anse (Department)
Community organization.
Social values -- Haiti -- Grand'Anse (Department)
Social values.
Folk songs, French Creole -- Social aspects -- Haiti -- Grand'Anse (Department)
Folk songs, French Creole.
Social aspects.
Haiti.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Jennie Marcelle. When the hands are many. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001 0801437970 (DLC) 00012448 (OCoLC)45375219
ISBN 9781501717970 (electronic book)
1501717979 (electronic book)
0801437970
9780801437977
0801486734
9780801486739