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Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village

A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There, the reader meets some of the world's poorest people — peasants, sharecroppers and landless labourers — and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. The villagers' poverty is not fortuitous, a result of divine dispensation or individual failings of character. Rather, it is the outcome of a long history of exploitation, culminating in a social order which today benefits a few at the expense of many.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 285
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780935028164
  • Genres
  • anthropology
  • Release date
  • 1985