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Author Dore, Elizabeth, author

Title Myths of modernity : peonage and patriarchy in Nicaragua / Elizabeth Dore
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary Combines Marxist and postmodern approaches to argue that patriarchy has provided the central organizing principle of Nicaraguan agrarian labor systems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index
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Subject Social stratification -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio)
Peonage -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio)
Patriarchy -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio)
Peasants -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio)
Sex role -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnic relations
Patriarchy
Peasants
Peonage
Sex role
Social conditions
Social stratification
Könsmaktsordning -- historia -- Nicaragua -- 1870-1930.
Lantarbetare -- historia -- Nicaragua -- 1870-1930.
SUBJECT Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio) -- Ethnic relations
Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio) -- Social conditions
Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio) -- History
Subject Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio)
Diriomo
Nicaragua -- sociala förhållanden -- historia -- 1870-1930.
Nicaragua -- ekonomiska förhållanden -- historia -- 1870-1930.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822387626
082238762X
1283022206
9781283022200
9786613022202
6613022209