Morton Gregory Duff - Return From The World Economic Growth And Reverse Migration In Brazil - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An anthropologist's investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages. In Return from the World anthropologist Gregory Duff Morton traces the migrations of Brazilian workers who leave a thriving labor market and return to their home villages to become peasant farmers. Morton seeks to understand what it means to turn one's back deliberately on the promise of economic growth. Giving up their positions in factories at construction sites and as domestic workers these migrants travel thousands of miles back to villages without running water or dependable power. There many take up subsistence farming. Some become activists with the MST Brazil's militant movement of landless peasants. Bringing their stories vividly to life Morton dives into the dreams and disputes at play in finding freedom in the shared rejection of growth.
Title: Return From The World Economic Growth And Reverse Migration In Brazil
Author(s): Morton Gregory Duff
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226832920
Pages: 272 Pages, 28 Halftones
Publication Date: 7/10/2024
Category: Archaeology