"Livelihood and Resistance" examines a Peruvian highland community where rural resistance has been endemic for over a century. Gavin Smith explores the way in which the villagers' daily economic interests and their political struggles contribute to their social and political identity.
Gavin Smith is Professor of Anthropology at University College, University of Toronto. He has published widely in leading anthropological and social science journals in the United States and Canada and has earned an international reputation with his writings on peasants.
