Closed Corporate and Open Peasant Communities: Reopening a Hastily Shut Case
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 19 (2) , 179-188
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500008604
Abstract
In a provocatively entitled article, “Chinese Peasants and the Closed Community: An Open and Shut Case,” Professor G. William Skinner has raised a number of important issues regarding the closed corporate and open peasant community types first formulated by Eric Wolf (1955, 1957). Skinner questions Wolfs assumption (1957: 8) that closed corporate communities developed in areas where society became dualized “…into a dominant entrepreneurial sector and a dominated sector of native peasants,” whereas open peasant communities arose in the new, market-production oriented settlements budded off from Europe “ …in response to the rising demand for cash crops which accompanied the development of capitalism in Europe” (Wolf, 1955: 462).Keywords
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