When the Hands Are Many Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti

Name: When the Hands Are Many Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti
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ISBN: 9780801486739

ISBN-10: 0801486734

ISBN-13: 9780801486739

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jennie M. Smith

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction	p. 1
"Americans Don't Have Democracy!"	p. 4
Background and Approach	p. 7
The Haitian "Peasantry"	p. 11
Bamon and Tisous	p. 13
Linguistic Issues	p. 16
Persistent Legacies	p. 18
Predatory Parasitism	p. 19
Interventions from "Across the Water"	p. 22
Risking Hope	p. 24
New Legacies	p. 26
Persistent Dissidence	p. 39
Melodic Machetes	p. 45
Rural Footpaths	p. 46
Sociopolitical Poetics	p. 46
Agricultural Work Parties	p. 52
Mardi Gras and Rara Festivities	p. 55
Gwoupman Peyizan Meetings	p. 56
A Refugee Camp	p. 60
Recording Studios	p. 62
Reflections on the Chante Pwen-s	p. 66
Hoes Striking in Unison: Cooperative Labor and Community Spirit	p. 69
Taking Up the Hoe	p. 71
Yonn Ede Lot. Sharing Labor and Resources as a Way of Life	p. 72
Collective Agricultural Labor	p. 80
"The Strike of a Solitary Hoe Makes No Music"	p. 82
The Konbit and the Kove	p. 83
Rural Community Groups	p. 88
The Atribisyon	p. 93
"One and the Same We". Group Membership and Structure	p. 94
An Anatomy of Atribisyon Labor	p. 96
Feasting on History: The Rachot	p. 98
Reflections on the Atribisyon	p. 102
The Sosyete	p. 104
Structure and Leadership	p. 105
Case Studies of Bamon Sosyete-s	p. 113
Reflections on the Sosyete	p. 139
The Gwoupman Peyizan	p. 141
The "Shoulder-to-Shoulder" GP of Lakay	p. 142
Historical Precedents of the Gwoupman Peyizan	p. 148
Consolidating a Movement	p. 151
In the Grand'Anse	p. 152
The Project for Social Change	p. 153
Gwoupman Fanm Vanyan-s	p. 157
Reflections on the Gwoupman Peyizan	p. 171
Beyond "Democracy" and "Development"	p. 175
Reconsidering Democracy and Development	p. 176
Visualizing the Future	p. 178
Elements of a Good Society	p. 179
A Movement toward the Future	p. 193
A Call for Undoing Ourselves	p. 198
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 225
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