On the western border of Poland stands an ancient forest, the only primeval forest left in Europe. Today, the people of Poland must decide its future and reconcile its past. Thousands of years old, the Bialowieża Forest is a region of outstanding biodiversity, boasting centuries-old oak trees; endangered animals such as wolves, woodpeckers, and bison; and thousands of species of insects and fungi. Situated in a country seeking to reconcile its communist past with its modern European future, the forest is the subject of debate among villagers, biologists, foresters, environmentalists, and politicians determining what a modern country does with its primeval forest. Should the forest support a flagging economy by providing jobs and renewable natural resources through logging? Or does modernity mean environmental protection and ecotourism? And if so, what version of Poland's history would ecotourists encounter on their trip to the Bialowieża Forest? In Foresters, Peasants, and Beetles, Eunice Blavascunas provides a moving and surprising portrait of the collision of traditional peasant farming, conservation work, and commercial logging in the Bialowieża Forest. As it is simultaneously logged and protected, ancient and modern, Polish and global, the stakes could not be higher as Poles must decide both what the Bialowieża Forest has been and what it will become.
Описание: Household and Class Relations offers an adept and multifaceted look at modern peasant family relation- ships. With the perspectives of an anthropologist and sociologist as well as those of an economist, Deere brings a fresh approach to the classic question: how do households continue to exist as units of production and reproduction in the face of their growing proletarianization and impoverishment? She draws upon rich life histories as well as archival and survey research to provide a regional history of the northern Peruvian highland province of Cajamarca since the turn of the century. Beginning with an examination of the hacienda system in the first four decades of this century, Household and Class Relations goes on to probe the development of agrarian capitalism in the postwar period and the peasant economy of the 1970s. With this background firmly in place, Household and Class Relations then distinguishes itself through attention to the interaction between class and gender. Deere argues that the subordination of women has had high costs for the well-being of rural households, exacerbating peasant poverty. Further, she shows how peasant households have adopted a strategy of participating in multiple income generating activities in order to survive. Breaking new ground, her study examines how gender relations interact with class relations to explain social differentiation among peasants. This is an exciting and stimulating study that will appeal to Latin Americanists, scholars of women's studies, and economists. Wide-ranging and incisive, it will garner attention from many quarters. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
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Описание: Concerned with scholarly, popular, and religious backdrops that understand the connection between psychedelics and mystical experiences to be devoid of moral concerns and ethical dimensions--a position supported empirically by the rise of acid fascism and psychedelic cults by the late 1960s--Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America traces the development of sixties psychedelic mysticism from the deconditioned mind and perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley, to the sacramental ethics of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, to the altruistic religiosity practiced by Stephen Gaskin and The Farm. Building directly off the pioneering psychedelic writing of Huxley, these psychedelic mystics understood the height of psychedelic consciousness as an existential awareness of unitive oneness, a position that offered worldly alternatives to the maladies associated with the postwar moment (e.g., vapid consumerism and materialism, lifeless conformity, unremitting racism, heightened militarism). In opening a doorway to a common world, Morgan Shipley locates how psychedelics challenged the coherency of Western modernity by fundamentally reorienting postwar society away from neoliberal ideologies and toward a sacred understanding of reality defined by mutual coexistence and responsible interdependence. In 1960s America, psychedelics catalyzed a religious awakening defined by compassion, expressed through altruism, and actualized in projects that sought to ameliorate the conditions of the least advantaged among us. In the exact moments that historians and cultural critics often locate as signaling the death knell of the counterculture, Gaskin and The Farm emerged, not as a response to the perceived failures of the hippies, nor as an alternative to sixties politicos, but in an effort to fulfill the religious obligation to help teach the world how to live more harmoniously. Today, as we continue to confront issues of socioeconomic inequality, entrenched differences, widespread violence, and the limits of religious pluralism, Psychedelic Mysticism serves as a timely reminder of how religion in America can operate as a tool for destabilization and as a means to actively reimagine the very basis of how people relate--such a legacy can aid in our own efforts to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and compassionate world.
Автор: Long Название: Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs ISBN: 0521105374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521105378 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume traces the development of the central highlands, one of Peru`s major mining regions. It draws on extensive fieldwork carried out in Peru between 1970 and 1982, spanning a reforming military government, reaction and a return to civilian politics under Belaunde.
On the western border of Poland stands an ancient forest, the only primeval forest left in Europe. Today, the people of Poland must decide its future and reconcile its past. Thousands of years old, the Bialowieża Forest is a region of outstanding biodiversity, boasting centuries-old oak trees; endangered animals such as wolves, woodpeckers, and bison; and thousands of species of insects and fungi. Situated in a country seeking to reconcile its communist past with its modern European future, the forest is the subject of debate among villagers, biologists, foresters, environmentalists, and politicians determining what a modern country does with its primeval forest. Should the forest support a flagging economy by providing jobs and renewable natural resources through logging? Or does modernity mean environmental protection and ecotourism? And if so, what version of Poland's history would ecotourists encounter on their trip to the Bialowieża Forest? In Foresters, Peasants, and Beetles, Eunice Blavascunas provides a moving and surprising portrait of the collision of traditional peasant farming, conservation work, and commercial logging in the Bialowieża Forest. As it is simultaneously logged and protected, ancient and modern, Polish and global, the stakes could not be higher as Poles must decide both what the Bialowieża Forest has been and what it will become.
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