| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming. By Eric Ramírez-Ferrero. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xii + 221 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $64.50, £42.00, cloth; $24.50, £16.00, paper.)

The American farmer epitomizes independence. He is the strong, silent man who lives outside of town and answers to no one but himself. In Troubled Fields, anthropologist Eric Ramírez-Ferrero takes issue with this image. Based on early 1990s fieldwork with a group of farmers in northwestern Oklahoma, Ramírez-Ferrero concludes that farmers responded to the farm crisis in terms of their culture. Even these quintessentially "uncultured" men are products of their culture, and they construct their options from their cultural toolkit. Or, as Ramírez-Ferrero puts it, from "a multiplicity of cultural discourses" (p. 5).

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