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Myths of modernity : peonage and patriarchy in Nicaragua / Elizabeth Dore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dore, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social stratification--Nicaragua--Diriomo (Municipio).
- Social stratification.
- Peonage--Nicaragua--Diriomo (Municipio).
- Peonage.
- Patriarchy--Nicaragua--Diriomo (Municipio).
- Patriarchy.
- Peasants--Nicaragua--Diriomo (Municipio).
- Peasants.
- Sex role--Nicaragua--Diriomo (Municipio).
- Sex role.
- Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio)--Ethnic relations.
- Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio).
- Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio)--Social conditions.
- Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Combines Marxist and postmodern approaches to argue that patriarchy has provided the central organizing principle of Nicaraguan agrarian labor systems.
- Contents:
- Who controls the past controls the future
- Theories of capitalism, class, gender, and ethnicity
- Indians under colonialism and postcolonialism
- Patriarchal power in the pueblos
- The private property revolution
- Gendered contradictions of liberalism: ethnicity, property, and households
- Debt peonage in Diriomo: forced labor revisited
- Patriarchy and peonage.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022202
- 9781283022200
- 1283022206
- 9780822387626
- 082238762X
- OCLC:
- 220950365
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