Cutting Down Trees

Herskovits Prize Winner

...shatters some conventional wisdom about agricultural strategies and migrant labor.ory, politics, culture, and economy over a century, relating national and regional changes to intimate aspects of daily life. It is not only largely successful in this, but also makes an important methodological and theoretical contribution to understandings of gender and agrarian change.

Relationships among male labor migration, food production, and household nutrition will be of special interest to development professionals and students of gender relations and environmental management.

... the more flowing parts of this book read like Babette's feast.