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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables and Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Debt Crisis, Social Crisis, Paradigm Crisis -- 1. The Rise and Demise of a Tropical Welfare State -- 2. "Iron Fist in a Kid Glove": Peasants Confront the Free Market -- 3. Organizing in "The Cradle of Maize" -- 4. "In Jail, We'll Eat Cement": Finale to a Peasant Strike -- 5. Movements Evolve, Organizations Are Born and Die -- Conclusion: Peasant Movements of the Late Twentieth Century -- Appendix: The Costa Rican Security Ministry's View of the Agriculturalists' Organizations in :1988 -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index

ABSTRACTThe Trump presidency in the United States and the consolidation of strongman regimes in Turkey, Russia, India, Hungary, Brazil, and elsewhere sparked new concern about authoritarianism among scholars, including anthropologists. The Society for Cultural Anthropology recently ran a blog series on "American Fascism," Anthropology Now devoted an issue to the current U.S. conjuncture, and this reviewer and others have highlighted the urgency of analyzing the rightwing offensive. In this outpouring of apprehension, Alexander Hinton's new book occupies a special place.