484 Pages
by
Routledge
484 Pages
by
Routledge
473 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on an intensive fourteen-year study of a Hungarian peasant village, Proper Peasants greatly expands our knowledge of Eastern European social organizations with its accurate portrayal of a rapidly vanishing peasant way of life. Centering on the village of Átány in central Hungary, the study presents a dramatic account of peasant life through the turbulent centuries. It is based... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Village And Its People; 1: The Village; 2: The Land: The Határ of Átány; 3: The People; 2: The Family; 4: The House and The Kert; 5: The Family; 6: The Members of the Family; 7: Marriage; 3: The Network of Social Relations; 8: Consanguinity, Affinity, and Fictive Kin-Ties; 9: Local Ties; 10: Age Groups; 11: Two Family Celebrations; 4: Ways Of Life And Social Strata; 12: Varieties And Levels Of Subsistence; 13: The Ways To Wealth And Poverty; 14: The Role Of Social Stratification In Everyday Behavior; 5: The Community; 15: ÁtÁny As A Unified Whole; 16: Religion; 17: Administration And Government; 18: ÁtÁny In The Country; EPILOGUE: THE “PROPER PEASANTS” OF Átány
Biography
Tamas Hofer
