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Winner of the Margaret Mead Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology The farm crisis of the 1980s was the worst economic disaster to strike rural America since the Depression—thousands of farmers lost their land and homes, irrevocably altering their communities and, as Kathryn Marie Dudley shows, giving rise to devastating social trauma that continues to affect farmers today. Through interviews with residents of an agricultural county in western Minnesota, Dudley provides an incisive account of the moral dynamics of loss, dislocation, capitalism, and solidarity in farming communities.

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Dudley presents a subtle, insightful, and nuanced treatment of the rural 'community' itself, emphasizing its divisions and contradictions. . . . [A] very good and enlightening book. With Debt and Dispossession , Kathryn Dudley joins the ranks of such anthropologists as Jane Adams, Deborah Fink, and Sonya Salamon who are presently doing more than rural historians to illuminate the nature and texture of rural American society. --David Danbom Rural History

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Kathryn Marie Dudley is assistant professor of American studies and anthropology at Yale University.

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