The scope of this study was to identify the presence of health problems and their significance for tobacco harvesters, State representatives, civil society and the tobacco industry, and also understand their coping strategies. An ethnographic study with 35 semi-structured interviews answered by harvesters' families and key informants was carried out in a rural community in the state of Rio Gran...

In a context where motherhood is an integral part of a woman's stereotype, being childless is a devastating experience. We explore how these so-called deviant women manage this situation. The objective of this article is to contribute to the debate regarding infertile women's agency, resilience, and resistance. This article is based on anthropological fieldwork among urban middle-class and rura...

This paper reports on a project aimed at revitalizing small and old rural villages through establishing a network of bookshops, the BookTownNet. The project combined a research framework based on theories from information system research and regional economics in analyzing the development and diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) to small, rural enterprises through that ne...

rhetoric of the enterprise culture and present a more contextualized account of individuals' experience of entrepreneurship training/development. Vanessa Casanova, Auburn University Reforesting Alabama: Guest Workers in the Forest Industry Driving through rural, heavily forested areas of Alabama during the winter months, one may be surprised to find that small dilapidated motels, houses and tra...

This paper examines the determinants and consequences of rural to urban registration (hukou) mobility in contemporary China, focusing on the link between social origins, hukou conversion, and the consequences of conversion. In contrast to massive rural-urban migration, hukou conversion is difficult and rare, but childhood urban residence increases the likelihood of achieving an urban hukou. Com...

Among many agrobased cottage industries in India sericulture has been promoted as an agro-based, labor intensive, rural oriented cottage industry, providing gainful employment mainly to the weaker and marginalized section of the society specially tribal. Sericulture occupies the place of pride in the rural economy can be practiced even with very low land holding, low gestation, high returns mak...

JOSEPH LAWSON, Progress in Pudsey, [facsimile of 1887 ed.], Firle, Sussex, Caliban Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. 154, £7.50. GEORGE STURT, The Bettesworth book, [facsimile of 1902 ed.], Firle, Sussex, Caliban Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. xv, 325, £7.50. GEORGE STURT, William Smith, potter andfarmer: 1790-1858, [facsimile of 1919 ed.], Firle, Sussex, Caliban Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 230, illus., £7.50. GEORGE ...

Voluntary simplicity is often considered to be a sustainable lifestyle phenomenon buttressed by environment-friendly consumption practices. Voluntary simplicity is shaped by the individual as well as society, and marketplace interactions often impact voluntarily simplified approaches to consumption. Pertinent, therefore, is a consideration of how voluntary simplifiers negotiate the tensions bet...

"Thirteen Five" period is an important period to accelerate economic development in the western region and build a moderately prosperous society. It is also a crucial period of modern agriculture and new rural construction. The hilly area is the most typical hilly area of China, with regional typical and representative features. Investigation of the new rural construction in the hilly area is c...