| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography
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Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
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| Note |
Originally published: London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustration; 1. Anthropological economics and a small village; 2. An economy evolves; Great expectations; Relapse and resurgence of the Isthmus; New forces in the interior; Population and transportation; Land; Resource depletion; 3. Household production: subsistence and surplus; Production for use; The organization of production; A subsistence ideology; Subsistence and surplus: theory; Subsistence and surplus: production facts. |
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Surplus, savings and the relations between production units4. The production process; Basic subsistence agriculture; Tools; The agricultural cycle; Alternatives and decisions; Profit, value and surplus: the functioning of the system; Auxiliary subsistence agriculture; Other productive activities; 5. Organizing a labour force; Production requirements; Units of labour measurement; The 'junta'; The 'peonada'; Earned peons; Hired peons; Contract labour; The forms compared; Desuetude and disarray of the forms; 6. The seeds of a transformation; Producing sugar cane; Labour in the cane. |
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The sugar-cane millsTransportation of the sugar cane; The acceptance of sugar cane; Sugar-cane value and profit; The command of finance; 7. Horizons and reflections; Epilogue: continuities and changes; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy is socially and historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation and particular attention is paid to the problem of understanding patterns of distribution and the constitution of the surplus in the peasant economy. First published in 1978. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Panama.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects. |
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Panama. |
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Sugar growing -- Panama.
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Sugar growing. |
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Panama -- Rural conditions.
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Rural conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gudeman, Stephen. Demise of a rural economy 0415330424 (OCoLC)53872294 |
| ISBN |
9781136543890 (electronic book) |
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1136543899 (electronic book) |
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0415330424 |
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9780415330428 |
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