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Local History in Global Context: Social and Economic Transitions in Western Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Carol A. Smith
Carol A. Smith
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Duke University
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It is increasingly fashionable for anthropologists to castigate themselves (or at least to castigate other anthropologists) for failing to take into account the larger or global processes that affect the small communities they study. We accuse ourselves, for example, of treating peasant communities as if they were primitive isolates and of failing to consider the external forces that created those communities and that cause them to operate the way they do. While this accusation may be warranted for the earliest work on peasant communities, I suggest that for quite some time now the anthropological perspective regarding these communities has shifted. In fact, I will argue here that many anthropologists have been all too ready to accept global views of peasant communities and social relations without proper consideration of the interplay between local and global processes.

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Local Culture and World Economy
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1984 , pp. 193 - 228
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1984

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