Rural communities books

The true essence of China is rooted in its villages. South China Village Culture provides an overview of the world...  Read More >>

Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family,...  Read More >>

Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family,...  Read More >>

Based on anthropological research conducted during the 1990s in Lu Village and informed by the classic 1930s study...  Read More >>

This book addresses key issues in aquaculture and rural development, with case studies drawn from several countries...  Read More >>

The causes of the Asian economic crisis have been the subject of fierce debates among economists, yet little is...  Read More >>

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During the past decade, life in post-socialist states has been fraught with instability and conflict. This book...  Read More >>

In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the...  Read More >>

In a vast society where environmentally conscious nonfarming voters and consumers have grown to greatly outnumber...  Read More >>

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The volume is a study on the development of groundwater use and the implications of its depletion on agrarian societies....  Read More >>

Ranching and Texas remain synonymous for people around the world, although our knowledge of ranch life more often...  Read More >>

A comprehensive analysis of the history and devel- opment of rural settlement in both the developed and developing...  Read More >>

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An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people  Read More >>

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This is a collaboration between two sheep ranchers that aims to capture, in essays and photographs, a vanishing...  Read More >>

This is volume 2 of the set A History of British Socialism. These volumes study the political thought experienced...  Read More >>

This is volume one in the two-volume set ""A History of British Socialism"". These volumes study the political thought...  Read More >>

Life in rural communities is bound to change with historically unprecedented speed in the coming decades. How will...  Read More >>

This history of queer life in the South seeks to debunk the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside...  Read More >>

These are essays about day-to-day living, the seasons and cycles of nature, the love of land and family, and one...  Read More >>

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