This article explores how small‐scale farmers' shared moral understandings of land shape both land sales and land rental markets, in the context of the commoditization of agriculture in Nicaragua. The results here presented are based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a subsistence farming community in the highlands of Nicaragua. This research shows that even in relatively commoditized market economies, shared yet contested ideas around the ethics of a community moral economy stall and constrain the local marketization of land. Social relationships, ideas of a sacred origin of land, and expectations about the duties of landholders toward their community peers undermine the capitalist dynamics of supply and demand. This ethical challenge to capitalist market expansion into land markets enables the survival of small‐scale subsistence farming. These findings are important, as they show how land markets are shaped by differing perspectives on historical dynamics of land tenure, class differentiation, and the everyday moral economies in which competing ideas of obligation, solidarity, and fair prices are articulated.

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尼加拉瓜高地土地市场的道德经济

本文探讨了在尼加拉瓜农业商品化的背景下，小规模农民对土地的共同道德理解如何塑造土地销售和土地租赁市场。这里提出的结果基于在尼加拉瓜高地的一个自给农业社区进行的人种学实地调查。这项研究表明，即使在相对商品化的市场经济中，围绕社区道德经济伦理的共享但有争议的想法也会阻碍并限制当地的土地市场化。社会关系、土地神圣起源的观念以及土地所有者对其社区同伴的义务的期望破坏了资本主义的供需动态。这种对资本主义市场扩展到土地市场的道德挑战使得小规模自给农业得以生存。这些发现很重要，因为它们表明了土地市场是如何通过对土地保有历史动态、阶级分化和日常道德经济的不同观点而形成的，其中阐明了义务、团结和公平价格的竞争理念。