Book reviews

Capitalism and Peasant Farming: Agrarian Structure and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu, by John Harriss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Bombay. Pp.xviii + 358; Rs. 125. Ecology and Exchange in the Andes, edited by David Lehmann (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 41). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.vi + 245; £25. Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru by Adolfo Figueroa (Cambridge Latin American Studies 47). Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.xii + 140; £20. Peasant Movements in India, 1920–1950, by D.N. Dhanagare. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.xiii + 254; £12. Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860–1920, by Michelle Burge McAlpin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp.xvi + 288; £30.20. Mafia, Peasants and…