Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226169132)

Winner of the Margaret Mead Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology

The farm crisis of the 1980s was the worst economic disaster to strike rural America since the Depression--thousands of farmers lost their land and homes, irrevocably altering their communities and, as Kathryn Marie Dudley shows, giving rise to devastating social trauma that continues to affect farmers today. Through interviews with residents of an agricultural county in western Minnesota, Dudley provides an incisive account of the moral dynamics of loss, dislocation, capitalism, and solidarity in farming communities.

Author: Kathryn Marie Dudley
ISBN-10: 0226169138
ISBN-13: 9780226169132
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2002
Pages: 211
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.32w x 0.49d