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• Winner of Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize in Ethnogra.

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<p> The Broken Village is an ethnography that is told with verve and momentum and captures virtually everything that is currently happening in rural Latin America. It takes us through all the bizarre and fascinating ways in which rural people have responded to neoliberal globalization. In showing us why the ethnography of a particular place is so useful for understanding a world in constant flux, Daniel R. Reichman makes a powerful case for why anthropology still matters. -Steve Striffler, Professor and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans, author of Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food

<p> Reichman analyzes human migration and economic globalization via ethnography of a small Honduran village between 2001 and 2006. The book's title evokes the twin dislocations of economic globalization affecting the village-the volatility of coffee markets following the demise of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 and the upswing in global human migration in the two decades that followed. The book examines migration, religion, and coffee-planting strategies as various potential coping mechanisms for dealing with these dislocations. . . . Reichman writes briskly and well, making this book useful in undergraduate courses exploring globalization. -Choice (October 2012)

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Daniel R. Reichman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester.

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