On Anthropology and Education: Retrospect and Prospect

This essay deals with aspects of the historic and contemporary linkages between the discipline of anthropology and the domain of education. An historic contextualization of the development of educational anthropology provides the frame from within which extant theoretical and methodological issues are critically delimited. Possibilities for future areas of activity and concern are explored, and specific recommendations for future directions are presented

Sidney W Mintz’s ‘peasantry’ as a critique of capitalism: New evidence from Jamaica

A major theme in Sidney W Mintz’s pioneering work on Caribbean societies has been the significance of peasantries in the transformation of this region. After outlining Mintz’s perspective on Caribbean peasantries as a ‘resistant response’ to colonialism, plantations, slavery and indenture, this article highlights on-going peasantization in Jamaica, which was highly developed as a slave-plantation colony and where the post-colonial legacies of this history persist. Drawing on the author’s long-term fieldwork in the island, the article explores maroons, free villages and ‘squatters’ as modes of peasantization and discusses common land, family land and ‘captured’ land as forms of peasant landholding in the face of capitalist land monopolization by the agricultural, bauxite and tourist industries. In conclusion, the article explores how this new evidence from Jamaica reinforces, revises and extends Mintz’s work on Caribbean peasantries as a critique of capitalism

OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA, 1880–2000

Osamu Saito's pioneering research into the long‐term changes in occupational structure of Japan has inspired scholars to take a fresh look at structural change in other countries. This article offers a case study of Indonesia. We find a rather slow pace of structural transformation until the 1970s – the immediate post‐war period even saw a reversal of trends. After 1970, during a growth spurt, employment growth in manufacturing was not impressive, and services were an even more important source of employment. The role played by by‐employment is also analysed, demonstrating that in 1905 the economy was quite diversified