Rural communities books

Fans of Chris Bohjalian's novels and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days will enjoy this collection of witty and...  Read More >>

Time Beyond Time is a tenderly crafted memoir of bygone days in rural England-of the period when machinery and mechanization...  Read More >>

When two city girls embark on an afternoon of idle window-shopping in Worcestershire and end up buying a horse,...  Read More >>

A study of village governance in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China that reinterprets peasant behavior,...  Read More >>

The farm kid soul is a hard thing to shake, Justin Isherwood writes in FarmKid: Tales growing up in rural America....  Read More >>

This book provides an overview of the contemporary politics of the British countryside. It argues that we are witnessing...  Read More >>

Multiple caretaking arrangements exist in non-western societies with other members of the household and the community...  Read More >>

Offers a pioneering study of the articulation/incorporation of the Buhid of Mindoro with new political and socioeconomic...  Read More >>

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The Sacred Village introduces local religious life in Cang County, Hebei Province, as a lens through which to view...  Read More >>

A look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development...  Read More >>

Blending theory and case studies, this book looks at community-building in rural America, and how civic-minded people...  Read More >>

Sustainability and the Civil Commons moves beyond rural roots to build a comprehensive understanding of sustainability...  Read More >>

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This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of...  Read More >>

This book reports the findings of field studies between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China....  Read More >>

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A broad-ranging and penetrating analysis of and reflection on the realities of rural life by the Anglican bishops...  Read More >>

Barbara Cellarius provides an ethnographic description of village life and conservation efforts in an ecologically...  Read More >>

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Anthropologist Celia Rothenberg gives us a rare glimpse into the daily life of a contemporary Palestinian village,...  Read More >>

Drawing on nearly thirty years of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested...  Read More >>

Drawing on nearly thirty years of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested...  Read More >>