Book reviews

Abstract

Capitalism and Peasant Farming: Agrarian Structure and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu, by John Harriss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Bombay. Pp.xviii + 358; Rs. 125.

Ecology and Exchange in the Andes, edited by David Lehmann (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 41). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.vi + 245; £25.

Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru by Adolfo Figueroa (Cambridge Latin American Studies 47). Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.xii + 140; £20.

Peasant Movements in India, 1920–1950, by D.N. Dhanagare. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.xiii + 254; £12.

Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860–1920, by Michelle Burge McAlpin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp.xvi + 288; £30.20.

Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates; Society in Traditional Calabria, by Pino Arlacchi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.ix + 212; NP.

A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village, by Betsy Hartmann and James Boyce. London/New Delhi/ Washington: Zed Press/ Oxford University Press/Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1983. Pp.xi + 285; £12.95 (cloth); £5.95 (paper).

Child Work, Poverty and Underdevelopment, edited by G. Rodgers and G. Standing. Geneva: ILO, 1981. Pp.xii + 310; £8.75 (hard cover); £6.25 (limp cover).

Scottish Rural Society in the Sixteenth Century, by Margaret H.B. Sanderson. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982. Pp.ix + 286; £15.

Women, Work, and Property in North‐West India, by Ursula Sharma. London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1980 (paperback edition 1983). Pp.ix + 226; Maps, Glossary, Subject and Name Indices, Bibliography; £5.95.

Concepts of Person: Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India, edited by Akos Östör, Lina Fruzetti and Steve Barnett. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 271; Bibliography, Index; £28.00.

Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village, by William Hinton. New York: Random House; and London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. Pp.xxxix + 785. $25 (cloth); £15.95 (paperback).

Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese, by Steven Mosher. New York: The Free Press; and London: Collier Macmillan, 1983. Pp.xii + 317; £15.95 (cloth).

Notes

Department of Politics, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, England.

Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9EF, England.

Department of History, Furness College, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YG, England.

Professor of Sociology, Fordham University College at Lincoln Center, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023, USA.

Post‐Graduate School of Arts and Social Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex BN1 9QN, England.

Department of Mediaeval History, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL.

University of Hawaii, Liberal Studies Program, Bachman Annex 13, 1630 Bachman Place, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.

East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas, 2118 Wescoe, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.