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Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
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.
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.
211 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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Kathryn Marie Dudley
5 books1 followerKathryn Marie Dudley is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies. She is an anthropologist of American culture, recognized for her work on economic dislocation, the globalization of industry, and social trauma.
She is the author of The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (1994) and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland (2000), ethnographic community studies of deindustrialization and the farm crisis, respectively. She is co-editor with Mary Margaret Overbey of Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Future Research Agenda (2000) and has made a video documentary of land loss in the rural South, Black Farmers and the Case of Pigford v. Glickman (2004).
Dudley is the recipient of the 1995 Harry Chapin Media Award for Best Book, the 1995 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for Best Book, and the 2000 Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for anthropological work that reaches a broadly concerned public.
She is the author of The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (1994) and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland (2000), ethnographic community studies of deindustrialization and the farm crisis, respectively. She is co-editor with Mary Margaret Overbey of Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Future Research Agenda (2000) and has made a video documentary of land loss in the rural South, Black Farmers and the Case of Pigford v. Glickman (2004).
Dudley is the recipient of the 1995 Harry Chapin Media Award for Best Book, the 1995 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for Best Book, and the 2000 Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for anthropological work that reaches a broadly concerned public.
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September 28, 2019
Absolutely incredible read. I keep saying this, but I will definitely post my reading response to this book soon.
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November 3, 2024Worth a read about the debt crisis among the US farming community in the 1980s, an era that is almost forgotten about, or certainly not discussed.
August 28, 2007
I want this professor to be my dissertation advisor.
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