Abstract

LICEAGA, Gabriel. The concept of rationality in the agrarian social studies. Anthropologica [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.46, pp.227-254. ISSN 0254-9212.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202101.008.

In this paper we question the concept of rationality providing a possible use of it in social agrarian studies and economic anthropology. First, we theoretically clarify the path by relating and distinguishing at the same time two concepts: «modern rationality» and «economic rationality». Afterwards, we present some theoretical-methodological mediation that allows a categorical use of those concepts. Then, we elaborate some epistemological reflections on this matter. As a conclusion, we review our main contributions, emphasizing the link between general concerns, linked to the development of Modernity, with some of its historical embodiments in the agrarian order and economic anthropology.

Keywords : rationality; peasantry; peasant economics; community; human needs..

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