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Richard Critchfield is a journalist and author specializing in the study of peasant societies, as well as a consultant on rural development to the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the author ofThe Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures, Shahat, an Egyptian, andVillages (forthcoming from Double-day). He is special correspondent on rural development toThe Economist and contributes toThe Christian Science Monitor, Washington Star, Los Angeles Times, and other papers.
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Critchfield, R. Javanese villages: The view from below. Society 17, 40–45 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180779
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