Law as a Means to Change

In that remarkable little book, so deftly argued and so elegantly phrased, which he wrote about anthropologists and coincidentally Peasant Society and Culture, Robert Redfield made more than one wise observation, but one was both a promise and a suggestion. Noting that peasant society in one sense consists of two connecting halves, he remarks that "we may be able to see a sort of link or hinge between the local life of a peasant community and the state or feudal system of which it is a part." The recognition and disclosure of connections in the extended relations of indigenous peoples - especially those who comprise major elements of modern states - is surely one way in which anthropologists, from the peculiar advantage of their ethnographic tradition, can contribute something of method and point of view to the study of large, compound societies and cultures

Feudalism · Peasant · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Land Rights and Reforms · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

• Peasant Society and Culture

  Sister Providencia, R Redfield•The American Catholic Sociological…•1957

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