Winner of the Margaret Mead Award of the Society for Applied
Anthropology
The farm crisis of the 1980s was the worst economic disaster to strike
rural America since the Depression--thousands of farmers lost their land
and homes, irrevocably altering their communities and, as Kathryn Marie
Dudley shows, giving rise to devastating social trauma that continues to
affect farmers today. Through interviews with residents of an
agricultural county in western Minnesota, Dudley provides an incisive
account of the moral dynamics of loss, dislocation, capitalism, and
solidarity in farming communities.