Reviews
"This is an excellent book. Daniel R. Reichman uses small-town Honduras to give us a big-picture ethnography. At once compassionate and incisive, impressively researched and well written, The Broken Village is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America, in its largest meaning, today."--Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia, "The 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 (December 2013), "The Broken Village is an ethnography that is told with verve and momentum and captures virtually everything that is currently happening in rural Latin America. It takes us through all the bizarre and fascinating ways in which rural people have responded to neoliberal globalization. In showing us why the ethnography of a particular place is so useful for understanding a world in constant flux, Daniel R. Reichman makes a powerful case for why anthropology still matters."-Steve Striffler, Professor and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans, author of Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food, The 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., "This is an excellent book. Daniel R. Reichman uses small-town Honduras to give us a big-picture ethnography. At once compassionate and incisive, impressively researched and well written, The Broken Village is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America, in its largest meaning, today."-Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia, 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., "The Broken Village is an ethnography that is told with verve and momentum and captures virtually everything that is currently happening in rural Latin America. It takes us through all the bizarre and fascinating ways in which rural people have responded to neoliberal globalization. In showing us why the ethnography of a particular place is so useful for understanding a world in constant flux, Daniel R. Reichman makes a powerful case for why anthropology still matters."--Steve Striffler, Professor and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans, author of Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food, "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."--Choice (October 2012), "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."-Choice (October 2012)
