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Book SynopsisDaniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States.
Trade ReviewThe Broken Village is sure to become obligatory reading for social scientists considering the cultural shifts resulting from neoliberal policies and the retreat of the state in Latin America and beyond. It provides much-needed perspective on the relatively understudied country of Honduras.
-- Sarah Lyon * American Anthropologist *
Reichman analyzes human migration and economic globalization via ethnography of a small Honduran village between 2001 and 2006. The book's title evokes the twin dislocations of economic globalization affecting the village—the volatility of coffee markets following the demise of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 and the upswing in global human migration in the two decades that followed. The book examines migration, religion, and coffee-planting strategies as various potential coping mechanisms for dealing with these dislocations.... Reichman writes briskly and well, making this book useful in undergraduate courses exploring globalization.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Integration and Disintegration
1. American Dream, American Work: Fantasies and Realities of Honduran Migrants
2. The Needy, the Greedy, and the Lazy: The Moral Universe of Migration
3. The Ashes of Progress: A Biography after Modernization
4. The Devil Has Been Destroyed: Mediation and Christian Citizenship
5. Justice at a Price: Risk and Regulation in the Global Coffee Market
6. Global Sociality, Postmodernity, and NeopopulismNotes
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