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ROSEBERRY, William. Anthropologies and Histories. New Brunswick. Rutgers University Press. 1994. Pp:287
ROSEBERRY, William. Anthropologies and Histories. New Brunswick. Rutgers University Press. 1994. Pp:287
R O S E B E R R Y
Anthropologies and Histories
r
ANTHROPOLOGIES
AND
HISTORIES
Essays i n Culture, History,
a n d Po litical E c o n o m y
W il l ia m Roseberry
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R U T G E R S U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
N E W B R U N S W I C K A N D L O N D O N
T h ir d paperback p rinting, 1994
Roseberry, W il l ia m , 19 5 0 -
Anthropologies and histories : essays in culture, history, and
political economy / W il l ia m Roseberry.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p .
Includes in d e x .
I S B N 0 - 8 13 5 - 14 4 5 - 2 (cloth) I S B N 0 -8135-1446-0 (pbk.)
1 . Ethnology— Philosophy. 2 . Eco no mic anthropology. 3. Political
anthropology. 4. Symbolism. I. Titl e .
G N N 3 4 5 .R 6 6 8 1989
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C O N T E N T S
Preface ix
Introduction 1
in Latin America 17 5
Notes 233
References 243
Ind ex 269
My a im in this book is to explore some of the cultural a n d
“ A m e r ic a n iz a t io n ” in L a t in A m e r ic a . W h il e I co m e to this book
l im in a r y discussion.
in g intellectual a r g u m e n t , as in Geertz’s In t e r p r e t a t io n o f C u l tu r e s
m e an s of c o m m u n ic a t io n .
Suppe.
I h a v e also benefitted fro m discussions a n d a collaboration
search C o u n c il ’s C o m m it t e e on L a t in A m e r ic a a n d the C a r ib
see the pieces whole; she bro ught her en thu s ia s m , skepticism ,
m u c h else.
Anthropologies and Histories
T h e tem ptatio n is to reduce the historical variety of the forms of inter
even these most evidently social forms and to give th e m a prim ar ily psy
find certain major forms and images and ideas persisting through p e r i
ods of great change. Yet if we can see that the persistence depends on
the forms and images an d ideas b ein g changed, though often subtly,
internally and at times unconsciously, w e can see also that the persistence
salsa, a n d M e x ic a n p o p b e in g played by a M e x ic o C it y b a n d . L a
the m a y o r d o m o ’s house.
In this conflict of fiestas is concentrated a conflict of anthro
cal theory.
Anthropologists are fond of presenting their most im p o r ta n t
Marshall Sahlins:
is to b e un d er s to o d as m e d ia t e d b y th e cultural d e s ig n , w h ic h
that th e a n s w e r lies s o m e w h e r e in b e t w e e n . ( 1 9 7 6 : 5 5 )
understand ing of the issues invo lved a n d of the work of par tic u
lar authors requires that the d iv id e itself be presented in less
sharply d e f in e d a n d provocative terms. As I argue m o re fully in
C h a p t e r 2, the several oppositions that characterize anthropo
logical discussions are not s im ply variations on a single an-
barrio a n d w it h in Tepoztlan?
To understand the conflicts, w e n e ed to kn o w s o m ethin g
about the long-term structure a n d m e a n in g of this particular
barrio fiesta w it h in a cycle of fiestas, but w e also n e ed to kn o w
s o m eth in g about how specific in d ivid u a l s are acting w it h in
those structures, u sing a particular m e a n in g f u l occasion to say
s o m eth in g about th e ir relationships w it h each other, their rela-
in tr o d u c tio n 5
prospects.
T o understand w h a t people are saying a n d h e a r in g in p a r tic u
and history. In the most restricted unders tan d ing , there was
Eric W o lf.1
As expressed in T h e I n t e r p r e t a t io n of C u l tu r e s ( 19 7 3 a ) , N e g a r a
the two are in d e e d synonym ous. T o say that a pro blem or prac
tice is historical is to say that it is culturally situated, a n d vice
versa. Geertz m a ke s this most clear in his reconstruction of the
Geertz suggests that both styles are valid , h e clearly prefers the
and suggesting that it is the style most a ppro pria te for the non-
Western societies most anthropologists study ( ib id .: 6).
activity a n d concept.
at the b e g in n in g of Islands of H is t o r y :
ence of culture” ( 1 9 8 5 : 7 2 ).
history:
history.
B o th historical styles— history as cultural difference a n d his
of politics a n d economics.
a n in v e n t o r y . . . .
— A n t o n io G r a m s c i, T h e P r is o n N o te bo o ks
r
C H A P T E R O N E
Balinese Cockfights
and the Seduction
of Anthropology
Harris,
t h e m . . . ” ( ib id .: 13 ) . O r : “ T h e culture of a people is an e n s e m
199).
A s id e from sexual differentiatio n a n d the connection w it h
markets, Geertz also notes thro ugho ut the early part of the
ous rituals that elaborately tell the Balinese that “ status is all”
Geertz, that reject the ideational d efin itio n in favor of one that
rial pro ductio n, that the abstract distinction betw een material
tales are t r a d it io n a l , they are not tim eless; that is, the form and
analysis of the tales a n d , finally, suggest that the tales w ere at
uge for their fleeing brothers. Taylor a n d Rebel show that such a
power, a n d praxis.
W e return, t h e n , to the co m paris o n of Geertz’s pro m is e w it h
science history
m a te r ia lis m idealism
the poles in one of the pairs can then be used to criticize all of
other.
L e t us concentrate, ho w ever, on a recent criticism of political
science history
M a r x is m culture
An d e r s o n ’s I m a g in e d C o m m u n it ie s (19 8 3 ) , W il l ia m Sewell’s W o r k
P o w e r ( 19 8 5 ) a n d Gerald S id e r ’s C u l t u r e a n d Class i n A n th r o p o l o g y
activities.
general p h e n o m e n o n , h e th e n e x a m in e s the e m er g e n ce of p a r
power.
S id er’s book reflects u p o n a series of traditions a n d forms of
contributions.
L e t us return, th e n , to the terms in the a n tin o m io u s grid and
The m a teria lis m called for h ere is not the sort that comes
fo u n d in g contradiction.
material.
Second, it is a m a te r ia lis m that is active. People enter into
ity” ( ib id .: 5 7 ) .
It is only in light of the previo us points that w e can suggest an
set out from real, active m e n , a n d on the basis of their real life-
d u c tive labor:
their activity.”
M o re to the p o in t, among the material conditions under
it is to be a boy or yo un g m a n , to be w h it e , to be an A m e r ic a n , to
be a Southerner (or an A r k a n s a n , or a Geo rgian), to be a M e t h
from the country or one from the city, one from a sharecrop
be utterly different.
k n o w n passage:
the struggle over the m e a n in g of his life for “ us” — the official
a tte m p t to sanitize his life a n d other attempts to m a k e K in g a
( 19 8 5 : 574 ).
cultural theorists.
or Navajo or O j ib w a or T s e m b a g a or N a m b iq u a r a or C h a m u l a is
extent that it still accepts the boundaries aro und particular cul
a historical pro duct. Or, better said, there has been a series of
socially constitutive.
that action takes place, conditions that are themselves the con
state m a y break the social ties of the old moral economy, erode
d u s t r ia l iz in g A m e r ic a ( 19 7 6 ) , Herbert G u t m a n lu m ps together
In a c o m m e n t a r y on F r a n k R . L e a v is a n d D en y s T h o m p s o n s
consciousness.
C offee a n d Pe t r o leum
19 6 9 ; Roseberry 19 8 3 ) .
Because the A n d e s were not densely populated d u r in g the
19 6 8 ; 19 6 9 ; Roseberry 19 8 0 ; 19 8 3 ) .
o m y reached its spatial limits aro und the turn of the century.
coffee farmers w h o r e m a in e d .
ject d e p e n d e n c e .
T h is leads us to the crucial characteristic of the A n d e a n peas
terio d e Fo m e n to 1 9 7 1 ) .
The statistics tell us that a d r a m a tic change has occurred in
the structure of the V e n e z u e l a n po pulatio n; one aspect of that
change is discussed in the n ext section. Statistics also indicate
the skewed structure of V e n e z u e l a ’s eco no m y— the o ve r w h e lm
in g w e ig h t of petro leum in the p r im a r y sector and of govern
m e n t services a n d c o m m e r c e in the tertiary sector. T h e y can
only h in t , ho wever, at the quality of life that allows Darcy
R ib e ir o to w rite of “ the ‘Pue r to -R ica n iza tio n ’ of V e n e z u e l a ”
1 9 7 2 : 288). H e refers in part to the historical im po rta n c e of the
IMAGES OF T H E P E A S A N T 67
cultural manifestations.
The sketch of eco n o m ic evolution in this century and of
have b een w ag ed aro und the petro leum sector. Efforts to “ sow
grants, they are not the only sources. M igrants to the city come
vices a n d c o m m e r c e m e n t io n e d earlier.
Physical e v id e n c e of u n e m p l o y m e n t a n d u n d e r e m p l o y m e n t
unem plo ym ent and un derem plo ym ent, then, the rancho is
T h is is e v id e n t in Ve n e z u e l a n popular m u s ic . Protest m u s ic
te m p e r a m e n t.
course of V e n e z u e l a n d e v e l o p m e n t .
nonetheless an a p p a r e n t reform.
fact that the d em o cratic per io d has lasted for three decades,
part from the fact that the political leaders a n d spo kesmen for
tunes of the two major parties of this diversio n are not clear. A
Left a n d R ig h t .
by R a y m o n d W il l ia m s in M a r x i s m a n d L it e r a t u r e ( 1 9 7 7 : 10 8 — 1 2 7 ,
this sense that I refer in the title of this essay to the conscious
lar policies. Most socialist parties also accept the linkage but
argue that the d o m in a n t parties are not really demo cratic or
im a g e s o f t h e peas ant 77
enced as progress.4
G iv e n the contradictory nature of Ve n e z u e l a ’s d e ve lo p m e n t,
Americanization
in the Americas
W e m ig h t b e g in by r e tu r n in g to D ar cy R ib e ir o ’s phrase and
suggesting that his choice of “ P ue r to -R ica n iza tio n ” rather than
t h in g to tell us nonetheless.
First, although a N o r th A m e r ic a n m ig h t h a v e looked at V e n e
zuela in the 1960s a n d spoken of A m e r ic a n iz a t io n , a Brazilian
A m e r ic a n d o m in a t io n .
T h e r e are other lessons to be d r a w n from the shift in perspec
im p e r ia l is m a n d d e p e n d e n c y in L a t in A m e r ic a . Calling for an
w h ic h a group or sector is H is p a n ic iz in g or A m e r ic a n iz in g , a n d
it becomes equally difficult to outline w h a t is M a y a n or Q u e -
case, im ag e s c o m e to m in d , a n d w e t h in k w e kn o w w h a t w e are
and space. If whole cultures do not enter into contact, the inter
tions a n d formations.
m e a n in g s (see G r a m s c i 1 9 7 1 [ 1 9 2 9 — 3 5 ]; W il l ia m s 1 9 7 7 ; Lears
19 8 5 ) .
When w e connect the three d im e n s io n s — intersecting histo
a n d encounters.
A significant task for the person trying to understand such
eration of a n y country’s e x p e r ie n c e of A m e r ic a n iz a t io n , we
avoid a billiard-ball a p p r o a c h .
out states. A n d in the e xten s ive plains of the southern cone and
center.
T h is is not to suggest that few changes occurred in those
has c o m m e n t e d :
m
96 c u l t u r e
liberals c a m e to po w er in m a n y L a t in A m e r ic a n countries. As
they d id so, they sought out n e w markets for n e w and old
can states d evelo ped stronger export economies, the Pacific lo
c o m pa n ie s , banks, a n d states (W o o d w a r d 1 9 8 5 ; M c C r e e r y 19 7 6 ;
C .F .S . Cardoso 19 8 6 ).
all in this p er io d . For the most part, the U n it e d States was in the
n in e t e e n t h century, w h e n m o r e r a p id c o m m u n ic a t io n a n d trade
Monroe D o c tr in e :
L a t in A m e r ic a .9
In the first place, it was seldom the case that “ the liberals”
tated c o m m e r c e , im p r o v e d c o m m u n ic a t io n s , a n d allowed h i m
powerholders m ig h t s im p ly be a tt e m p t in g to e n r ic h themselves.
farms w it h d e p e n d e n t laborers in C o l o m b ia n C u n d in a m a r c a
104 CULTURE
1 7 3 ) . 10
T h is current of opposition m ig h t be q uite diffuse. In M e x ic o ,
“ A m e r ic a n ” or A m e r ic a n iz in g elements a n d a n t i- A m e r ic a n or
can countries.
Salvador a n d N ic a r a g u a ).
As in the eco n o m ic realm, the grow ing co m ple xity of the state
a n d politics has created n e w a n d m u ltifo r m possibilities for the
ments in U n it e d States. W h e n we t h in k of an A m e r ic a n iz e d
m e n t’s sycophants.
T h e growth of a domestic m a r k e t a n d the e m er g e n c e of w hat
Cardoso a n d Faletto refer to as the “ m id d l e classes” h a v e h a d
profound social a n d cultural effects as well, o p e n in g space for
m is rea d both the past a n d present a n d does not take into account
the fact that these changes m a y be felt a n d e xp e r ie n c e d as forms
of social a n d eco n o m ic a d v a n c e m e n t , increased comfort a n d lei
sure. I n d e e d , these caricaturable styles of co ns um ptio n d epe n d
u p o n the e m e r g e n c e of less easily caricaturable ways of life. Sec
ond, the caricature d ep e n d s u p o n a particular group w it h in the
n e w m id d l e classes w h o h a v e the m e an s to purchase these goods
a n d realize some of their d rea m s . It would be m o re enlightening
to develop a m o re differentiated un ders tan d ing of the goods
AMERICANIZATIO N IN T H E AMERICAS 115
the m .
E v e n as w e a pp r o a ch a less patro n izin g a n d m o r e differen ti
d en t fo rm of d e v e l o p m e n t that characterizes L a t in A m e r ic a n
contradictions in turn.
States.
Second, the process of internationalization im p l ie s an interna
can contexts.
Let us take an e x a m p l e from the anthropological literature.
pus hing liberation theology increased the cultural space for reli
A m e r ic a n iz a t io n . T h e y m a y represent a project of A m e r ic a n iz a
tion on the part of missionaries, cultural officers of the State
consists in b e in g supra-historical.
— K ar l M a r x , letter to O t e c h e s t v e n n y e Z a p i s k i
c H A P T E R F I V E
European History
and the Construction of
Anthropological Subjects
substantive a rg um en ts is a d a u n t in g task.
126 PO LITICAL ECONOMY
Euro pe. O n e can clearly trace, then, a co ntin uity from Wolf’s
W o lf’s work, a whole body of work has developed over the past
world-system approaches.
“ L a t in A m e r ic a ” or “ N o r th A m e r ic a ” or “ A f r ic a ” w ith o u t losing
ters on the struggle over the length of the w o rkin g day, the
clear, not only fro m the whole body of his work but from the
other sections of the book. H is discussion of the e m e r g e n c e of
Europe a n d the creation of anthropological subjects in the p e r i
contends (and this is one of the book’s central theses) that the
m easured” (ib id .) .
A ltho u g h I h a v e no desire to restore M a r xis t orthodoxy, I
there w ere two d iffer e n tia tin g aspects of feudalism that pro ved
m in d u n d e r the influence of P ie r r e - P h il ip p e R e y , w h o m a in
tain e d from the b e g in n in g that it was exploitative ( R e y 19 7 5 ;
exam ple:
work in C h ia p a s , W o lf concludes:
the commercial coffee and corn economy of the area and in the
politics of the M e xican state. These involvements, in turn, have
altered their agricultural adaptation, changed their class struc
ture, and affected their political and ceremonial organization.
T h e ir continuing identity as inhabitants of “ Indian” c o m m u n i
ties is thus not a corpus of unchanged traditions maintained in
unbroken fashion from a distant past. It is, rather, the outcome
of a multitude of interrelated and often antagonistic processes
set in motion by capitalist development. (19 8 2 : 338, 339; cf.
Wasserstrom 1983)
revolutionary m o v e m e n t s .
Anthropology, History,
and Modes of Production
political task.1
outside anthropology.
H e r e w e m a y p o in t to the popularization of d e p e n d e n c y theo
followers in the E c o n o m ic C o m m is s io n on L a t in A m e r ic a as
production.
not the existence of “ free labor” throughout the system but the
al. 19 7 3 ; C u e v a 1 9 7 7 ; C .F .S . Cardoso 1 9 7 5 a ; 1 9 7 5 b ; Q u in t e r o
Rivera 1 9 7 3 ; P a le r m 19 7 6 a ; Sanoja a n d Vargas 19 7 4 ) a n d the
twentieth-century presence of apparently noncapitalist elements
in L a t in A m e r ic a (e.g., S ta ve n h a g e n 19 7 8 ; M o n to ya 19 7 8 ;
Archetti 1 9 8 1 ; Co o k 1 9 8 2 ; C . D . Scott 1 9 7 6 ; S m it h 1 9 7 9 ; L l a m b i
than b e in g valid for all types of society, are only relevant for
particular epochs. N e it h e r aspect by itself is startling. It is the
6 2 - 6 3 et p a s s im ; M a r x 19 6 4 a [ 18 4 4 ] : 1 7 7 — 1 9 3 ) .3
m a y be g iv e n e ith e r a restricted or m o r e e x p a n s iv e m e a n in g
since the distinction b e tw e e n mode of pro ductio n a n d social
formation is located elsewhere.
selves in a n u m b e r of ways.
“effects” could be d e d u c e d .
the basic presuppositions for capitalism (that is, the social rela
(not-capitalism)?
For the world-system theorists, there is little pro blem. For
been elusive.
The pro blem was most clearly addressed outside the L a t in
A m e r ic a n context by P ie r r e - P h il ip p e R ey , w ho saw three stages
(Rey 1 9 7 6 : 8 1 - 1 0 9 ; B r a d b y 1 9 7 5 ; Foster-Carter 19 7 8 ) .
that they are not co nc eived as stages. Roughly, the first and
second possibilities could characterize parts of L a t in A m e r ic a in
ful examples).
( 19 7 3 [ 1 8 5 7 — 5 8 ]: 9 7 ; cf. C .F .S . Cardoso 19 7 5 a ) . W e h a v e n u m e r
ous examples of subjugation a n d tribute, a n d our concepts a n d
failure.
If w e are really talking about s o m eth in g new , a n d w e take the
thetic m o d e itself.
England (e.g ., in Ch a p te r s 10 , 13 — 15 , 2 7 - 3 2 of V o l u m e 1 of
beyond political e c o n o m y ( T h o m p s o n 19 7 8 a : 5 5 - 6 6 ) . C a p it a l
laws of m o tio n .
Le t us return, t h e n , to the pro blem of theory a n d history. T h e
corn or coffee, for land, for the state. In this type of study, the
conceptualizers.
C H A P T E R S E V E N
Agrarian Questions
and Functionalist Eco no m ism
in Latin A m e r ic a
ants in R us s ian d e v e l o p m e n t .
news.
the fact that the two sectors supply the goods necessary to sat
that all of the value pro d u ce d in one cycle of pro duction could
fered support for some classic M a r xis t positions that does not
The first pro blem concerns the distinction betw een articu
lated a n d disarticulated a ccum ulatio n . S o m e contrast between
classic ones of the “ ten d en cy for the rate of profit to fall or the
financial surplus to rise” ; de J anvry 1 9 8 1 : 3 1 ) . T h e resolution of
shall leave aside, for the m o m e n t , the use of ideas a n d labels such
as “ traditional” a n d “ m o d e r n .” It is most interesting that wage-
good pro ductio n is excluded from the m o d e r n sector in disar
ticulated econo m ies at the level of d e f in itio n , just as luxury goods
are not m e n t io n e d in d e J a n vr y’s characterization of the con
s u m p tio n goods sector of articulated econo mies. Yet if w e con
sider im p o r t substitution industrialization as it has developed in
186 PO LITICAL ECONOMY
the basis for one of his central a rg um ents concerning the cre
ation of functional d u a lis m . W age-good production was to be
question.
to w id e n in g c o m m o d it y markets in E u r o p e a n d N o rth A m e r ic a .
interest is the fact that n e ith e r type fits d e J a n vr y’s model very
well. Certainly, the history of m a n y corporate c o m m u n it ie s is
inseparable from h a c ie n d a or plantation histories. B u t in most
cases c o m m u n it y history is not reducible to h a c ie n d a history or
a particular m o d el of a ccum ulatio n , a n d e v e n w h e r e the result
of that in te r tw in e d history has b e en a class of m in ifu n d is ta s ,
188 PO LITICAL ECONOMY
e m e r g e n c e of peasantries in Morelos, O a xa c a , a n d Y u c a t a n in
M e x ic o , w e would h a v e to e x a m in e each peasantry in the con
selves w it h th e ir o w n resources, a n d m a n y of t h e m m a y be in
subjective factor that does not alter the objective logic that d e
decades, a r g u in g that the process was one that was leading to
Th e Construction of
Natural Economy
essays.
Between the sim ple backward look and the simple progressive thrust
there is room for long a r g u m e n t but none for e n lig htenm ent. W e must
constructed.
in g classes.
seen as a passage from the peasant (or the artisan) to the prole
Gesellschaft ( ib id .: 2 3 1 - 2 3 4 , et p a s s im ).1
Germ any.
continues: (
[
As for work itself, for the peasant and the craftsman alike it 1
was lonely, patient effort. M a n lost himself in his work. H e I $
lived in it, as the artist does, he loved it so, that he would m u ch
rather not have parted with his handiwork. W h e n the dap- ,
pled cow was led from the stables to the shambles, the old
peasant w o m a n ’s eyes were wet; the potter strove hard not to f
be tempted by the trader’s offers for his p ip e . But if it had to
be sold, then the commodity was to be worthy of its maker.
T h e peasant, like the craftsman, had put something of h i m
self into his product; and in its m a k in g the rules of art were
obeyed. C a n we not understand, therefore, that the craft ideal ]
looked with scorn on scamped work, and on the substitution ! <
of bad for good materials? (Ibid.: 18 — 19) . <
th e c o n s tru c tio n of n a t u r a l econom y 205
econo my,” w e can see in his stages the basis for such a historical
stressed.
Early M a r x is t theorists of natural economy, the n , w ere using
o m y to c a pita lis m .3
Chapters 20 a n d 36 of C a p it a l , V o l u m e 3).
B u t capitalis m , according to M a r x , was not s im ply a society
Yet, “ nature does not pro duce on the one hand owners of
[ 18 5 7 - 5 8 ] : 4 7 1 - 5 1 5 ) .
In the final section of V o l u m e 1 of C a p it a l , after o utlining the
the basic conditions for capitalism was the freeing of the laborer
876).
historically, in t e r m e d ia t e type.
w it h a c o m m u n it y of producers. T h e process by w h ic h in d iv id u a l
pro perty-o w n in g households e m e r g e d is seen as part of the
sam e process that created capital as a social relation. T h e u n io n
of pro ducer w it h m e a n s of pro duction is m e d ia t e d by the un io n
of producers w it h each other, a n d the process of dissolution
necessary for the e m e r g e n c e of labor pow er as a c o m m o d it y is a
unfree, peasantry.
A t the b e g in n in g of his discussion of p r im it iv e accum ulatio n,
M a r x observes:
h e r e .6
e n d to the u r b a n : T u s ik , C h a n K o m , Dzitas, a n d M e r id a ) . T h e
1 9 8 1 ; W o lf 1 9 8 2 : 3 5 4 — 383), w h ic h m e a n s the d e v e l o p m e n t of a
m u s t be r e e x a m in e d .
d e n in g (N a s h 19 7 9 ) . I n d e e d , as N a s h ’s eth n o g r ap hy (not to
La t in A m e r ic a , w it h a u n io n m o v e m e n t of long standing a n d a
model.
a n d politics of resistance.
e x p a n d e d u n d e r s ta n d in g of the lack of p r im o r d ia l c o m m u n it y
class.
im a g in e d ” ( ib id .) .
the state.
tives to the h e g e m o n ic .
The n e w c o m m u n it ie s e m e r g e in political contexts but need
places.
Yet such extension is often possible. T h o m p s o n ’s M a k i n g o f the
at considerable le n g th .1 '
W e m ig h t consider m o re recent exam ples from L a t in A m e r i
can e x p e r ie n c e . H e r e it would be useful to explore the use of
devil im a g e r y a n d the practice of p ro pitiatio n rites a m o n g tin
m in e r s in B o l iv ia in light of this essay’s preoccupations. First, let
us note that the tin m in e r s are but one (highly m ilitant) fraction
of the B o l iv ia n w o r k in g po pulatio n. T h e u n io n serves as an
230 PO LITICAL ECONOM Y
p e a n e x p e r ie n c e .
S u ch organizations carry their o w n contradictions, however.
O n e of the most powerful elements of liberation theology is its
iden tificatio n w it h “ the peo ple” and their liberation from a
group of earthly oppressors. In a heterogeneous w o rkin g p o p u
lation of peasants, tenants, semiproletarians, industrial workers,
a n d the like, the message of liberation theology is one that creates
an oppositional im a g in e d c o m m u n it y . In an actual political m o v e
m e n t , ho w ever, “ the peo ple” can include a w id e variety of groups
T H E C O N S TR U C TIO N OF N A T U R A L EC O N O M Y 231
multiclass im a g in e d c o m m u n it y , a n d a m u c h smaller, im p r e s
The contradiction b etw een these two was carried over to the
revolutionary state.
consequences.
232 PO LITICAL ECONOMY
S m it h 19 8 9 ; Stoler 19 8 5 ; Trouillot 19 8 8 ; V in c e n t 19 8 2 ; W a r m a n 1 9 8 1 . In m y
H e r m a n n Rebel (19 8 9 a ; 19 89 b ).
Chapter 1
and rent collectors, or sedahan, Geertz refers to the cockfight only in a footnote
as w ith e verything else— land, water, people, and so on— the id io m had it that
the lord ‘o w ned ’ the m arket. In any case, h e levied taxes on it, as he d id on the
cockfights, w h ic h , in the afternoon of the market day, were often held in the
cockring near the marketplace” (19 8 0 : 19 9 ).
4. It should be understood that the difference is not that between text and
and idealism, makes the opposite criticism of Geertz, seeing Geertz’s cultural
theory as too closely tied to the social. B u t Sahlins makes this criticism as part
in the cockfight and that an in d iv id u a l cannot clim b the caste ladder in any case
( 19 7 3 a : 443). Geertz also relates folk tales from the classical period in which
should h e lose, but the c o m m o n e r ’s cock kills the kin g , the c o m m o n e r becomes
king, and so on ( ib id .: 442). Such tales support Geertz’s assertion that status
Chapter 2
not “ co unterhegem o nic,” that was profoundly conservative in its values and
effects, see Jones’s ( 19 8 3 : 1 7 9 — 238) e x a m in a tio n of late-nineteenth-century
Lo n d o n . H is study offers an im po r tan t response to those writers who too
rians and others reconstruct an d write about culture and experience, see
Popular M e m o r y G r o u p (19 8 2 ) .
Chapter 3
has h a p p e n e d since, most importantly the collapse of oil prices and , conse
Dissertation I m p r o v e m e n t Grant.
19 7 7
Bastardo 19 7 2 .
Chapter 4
Eighteenth B rum air e: “ Hegel remarks somewhere that all the great events and
19 5 2
19 4 3 ; Service 1 9 5 5 .
19 8 3 ; Safford 19 7 6 ; 19 8 5 .
G u d m u n d s o n 19 8 6 ; H e r n a n d e z 19 8 8 ; Holloway 19 80 ; Lo ve 19 80 ; McCreery
19 7 6 ; 19 8 3 ; Palacios 19 8 3 ; Pico 19 7 9 ; 1 9 8 1 ; Roseberry 19 8 3 ; S a m p e r 19 8 5 ;
Bergquist 19 7 8 .
historiographical schemes.
NOTES 237
19 7 9 ; de Janvry 1 9 8 1 ; 19 7 0 Furtado.
O ’Donnell 19 7 3 ; Stepan 19 7 8 .
Chapter 6
Readers interested in the issues raised in this chapter should consult Stern,
both for his excellent bibliography and his sophisticated ar g um e nt.
economics was l im ite d to som ething like productive forces, was m u c h more
active and d y n a m ic than H arris ’s cultural m aterialism. For Steward, hu
mans were not acted up o n by nature; they acted up o n nature through work
19 7 8 ).
see as well his 19 7 8 . For English applications, see Hindes s and Hirst 19 7 5 ;
1 9 7 7 ; Taylor 19 7 9 . T h e most stinging criticism c a m e from E . R Th o m p s o n
Llobera 1 9 8 1 .
nobility in Eng land, peasants in France) was taken as e vid en ce of the contin
6. See footnote 7, C h a p t e r 4.
Chapter 7
more broad than the question that motivates the present essay, and its content
is more rich than a s u m m a r y and critique of a model can suggest.
locus of class struggle is increasingly b ein g displaced away from the country
C hapter 8
Interesting that almost all the philosophers w ho ha ve felt the need to go back
there— granted not one of t h e m ever m a d e it— saw in that condition a specific
NOTES 239
Hobbes sent back ethnographic report that the life of m a n was solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish and short. U nderline (for once) the “ solitary.” It was a life apart.
A n d the same notion of original isolation appears ever and again, from Her-
odutus to K . Bucher, in the schemes of those who dared speculate on m a n in
nature. ( 19 7 2 : 96)
the prevalence of exchange. Altho ugh B u c h e r does not use such terms, the
more exact, the length of the route w h ic h the goods traverse in passing from
producer to consumer” ( 19 6 7 [1900]: 8 8 -89 ). For Marxists, however, the
toward the co nsum ptio n needs of the direct producer, regardless of w hether
tion in w h ic h the product has been objectified through exchange, the product
oriented not s im ply toward the co nsumption needs of the producer but to
ward the circulation and accumulation of value. T h u s , both the product and
so perm e ate d social relations that a value can be attached even to the labor
m o dity economy, then, is not production for use versus production for e x
change but production for use value versus production for exchange value.
Marx.
7. T h a t Redfield was looking critically at the urban end caused some discom
the peasants and children of peasants who went into the m in e s were not from
cellent study of B o livian peasant politics over the past thirty-five years, see
Albo 19 8 7 .
prior to capitalism and the idealization of noncapitalist class relations) are not
texts: the peasant as starting po int and the em phasis on the free peasantry at
regions long preceded the process of proletarianization per se. Rather, it was
dictory historical processes. In the process the terms become essences rather
than relations. W e need to carefully consider why in this t im e and place politi
cal c o m m u n it ie s take a class form while in another t im e and place they take
there are also e vid e n t similarities. All workers are b ein g placed— in England
and France in this period— in a c o m m o n position in relation of capital, and
this can serve as a basis for working-class action in classic forms through
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