When the hands are many : community organization and social change in rural Haiti / Jennie Marcelle Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Jennie Marcelle
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxii, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentBook review (H-Net)
Subjects
Peasants--Political activity. --Haiti. --Grand'Anse (Department).
Peasants--Haiti. --Grand'Anse (Department). --Societies, etc.
Community organization--Haiti. --Grand'Anse (Department).
Social values--Haiti. --Grand'Anse (Department).
Folk songs, French Creole--Social aspects. --Haiti. --Grand'Anse (Department).

Contents 1. Introduction. "Americans Don't Have Democracy!" Background and Approach. The Haitian "Peasantry" Bamon and Tisous. Linguistic Issues -- 2. Persistent Legacies. Predatory Parasitism. Interventions from "Across the Water" Risking Hope. New Legacies. Persistent Dissidence -- 3. Melodic Machetes. Rural Footpaths. Sociopolitical Poetics. Agricultural Work Parties. Mardi Gras and Rara Festivities. Gwoupman Peyizan Meetings. A Refugee Camp. Recording Studios. Reflections on the Chante Pwen-s -- 4. Hoes Striking in Unison: Cooperative Labor and Community Spirit. Taking Up the Hoe. Yonn Ede Lot. Sharing Labor and Resources as a Way of Life. Collective Agricultural Labor. "The Strike of a Solitary Hoe Makes No Music" The Konbit and the Kove.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Smith, Jennie Marcelle. When the hands are many. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ; 2001
LCCN 00012448
ISBN0801437970
ISBN9780801437977
ISBN0801486734 (pbk.)
ISBN9780801486739 (pbk.)

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