When the Hands Are Many

by Jennie Marcelle Smith

Book Overview

In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression, Haitian peasants, widely known as some of the world's most impoverished, politically disempowered, and illiterate citizens, debate the meanings of development, democracy, and the public good.Smith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486734
• ISBN13: 9780801486739
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"