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Peasants and peasant societies : selected readings

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Middlesex, Eng.; Penguin Books; 1984Description: 448 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.56 PEA
Summary: Peasants, defined as traditional, self-supporting, family-based land-workers, make up the vast majority of the population in the world's poorest and most explosive areas. In recent years the study of the character of peasant societies-and in particular their changing nature in the face of 'modernization' - has rightly become one of the major growth points in sociology. This volume of Readings looks at five aspects of the subject; first, the units of peasant social organization family, farm, village community etc.; second, the typical forms of production and exchange; third, the peasantry as a class; fourth, peasant cultural patterns including customs, religions and aesthetics; and finally, some of the prevailing attitudes towards peasant societies, and the shape of government policies.
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Peasants, defined as traditional, self-supporting, family-based land-workers, make up the vast majority of the population in the world's poorest and most explosive areas. In recent years the study of the character of peasant societies-and in particular their changing nature in the face of 'modernization' - has rightly become one of the major growth points in sociology.

This volume of Readings looks at five aspects of the subject; first, the units of peasant social organization family, farm, village community etc.; second, the typical forms of production and exchange; third, the peasantry as a class; fourth, peasant cultural patterns including customs, religions and aesthetics; and finally, some of the prevailing attitudes towards peasant societies, and the shape of government policies.

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