Peasants and peasant societies / edited by Teodor Shanin

By:

Shanin, Teodor (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harmondsworth; Penguin Books; 1984Description: 448 pSubject(s):

Social classes

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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