General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Anthropology and the Peasant Mode of Production -- PART ONE: AFRICA: FROM PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURALISTS TO PEASANTS -- Introduction -- Traditional Lifeways and Modernization: Social Transformation in a Niger Village -- Agrarian Revolution and the Land Question in Buganda -- Peasants and Planistrators in Eastern Africa, 1960-1970 -- The Human Aspects of Rural Resettlement Schemes in Egypt -- The Agricultural Resettlement Scheme: A Review of Cases and Theories -- PART TWO: EURASIA: PEASANT COMMUNITIES AND MODERNIZATION -- Introduction -- Socioeconomic Adjustments to Intensive Agriculture in the Tungabhadra Irrigation Project, Mysore State, India -- Communication in an Indian Village -- Changing Life Patterns in the Caucasus: The Contributions of Agriculture and Cattle Breeding -- The Rumanian Farm Household and the Village Community -- Transformation of Peasant Economy: A Hungarian Example -- Modernization of the Slovak Peasantry: Two Carpathian Highland Communities -- Sociocultural Changes Resulting From Road Construction in Areas of Difficult Access -- A Theoretical Study of the Peasantry: Peasants and Laborers in Southern Spain, Cuba, and Highland Peru -- PART THREE: LATIN AMERICA: PEASANT MOVEMENTS AND AGRARIAN REFORMS -- Introduction -- SECTION A: COMMUNITIES AND PROLETARIANIZATION -- Introduction -- The Law of the Tribe, the Law of the Nation, and Double Patriotism in Latin America -- Cattle Raising in the Society, Economy, and Ecology of Barbuda Island -- Plantations, Peasants, and Proletariat in the West Indies: Agrarian Capitalism and Alienation -- Group Identification as an Adaptation to Modernization in Brazil -- In the Real Peru: From Feudalism to Bureaucracy -- Sociocultural Change in Upper Urubamba, Peru -- SECTION B: LAND INVASIONS AND LAND REFORM -- Introduction.

Agrarian Reform in Chile and Its Impact on Araucanian Indian Communities -- Rural Development Strategy and Agrarian Reform -- Peasant Participation in Agrarian Reform: Mexico, Bolivia, and Venezuela -- The Cultural Dependence of Rural Communities and Peasant Guerrillas -- Ideological Capacitation of the Peasantry in the Context of Revolutionary Agrarian Reform -- Peasants and Bureaucracy in Chilean Agrarian Reform -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.