In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide -- not accident as previously assumed -- was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men -- but not women -- to want to kill themselves? Ramírez-Ferrero suggests that the root causes lie not in purely economic or personal factors but rather in the processes of modernization. He shows how cultural and social changes have a dramatic effect on men's identities as providers, stewards, and community members. Using emotions and gender as modes of analysis, he locates these men's stories in the wider context of American history, agricultural economics and politics, capitalism, and Christianity.
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An invaluable contribution to the ethnography of agriculture in the United States.
(Great Plains Research )This richly researched and well-written book is valuable for many reasons
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Ramirez-Ferrero's descriptions of the land and people of northwestern Oklahoma convey real evocative force. There is no doubt that the agricultural crisis he details is of the utmost significance for contemporary American culture and politics. I applaud his efforts to reveal the ethnographic realities of this economic devastation.
(Marilyn Ivy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Spring 2006)
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WHILE I WAS away at college in Vermont, I first became aware of the economic crisis affecting American family farmers through the media. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
midsized farms, farm financial crisis, agricultural accidents, agriculture movement, farm men, farm crisis, financial indebtedness, industrial agriculture, entrepreneurial self, family farmers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Agriculture Movement, United States, Indian Territory, Oklahoma City, Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, Civil War, Department of Commerce, Helping Hands, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service, Statistics Division, Rural Health Projects, World War, Federal Reserve System, Willie Nelson New!
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WHILE I WAS away at college in Vermont, I first became aware of the economic crisis affecting American family farmers through the media. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
midsized farms, farm financial crisis, agricultural accidents, agriculture movement, farm men, farm crisis, financial indebtedness, industrial agriculture, entrepreneurial self, family farmers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Agriculture Movement, United States, Indian Territory, Oklahoma City, Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Bureau of the Census, Census of Agriculture, Civil War, Department of Commerce, Helping Hands, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service, Statistics Division, Rural Health Projects, World War, Federal Reserve System, Willie Nelson New!
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- Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Woman, Culture, and Society by Michelle Rosaldo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed by Jane Adams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Abraham on Trial by Carol Delaney on page 159, and Back Matter
- Economic Anthropology by Stuart Plattner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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