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Peasants and peasant societies; selected readings.

Title
Peasants and peasant societies; selected readings.
Author
Shanin, Teodor
Publication
Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1971.

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448 pages; 18 cm
Summary
"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"--Back cover.
Series Statement
Penguin modern sociology readings
Uniform Title
Penguin modern sociology readings.
Subject
  • Peasants
  • Sociology, Rural
  • rural sociology
  • Agrarsoziologie
  • Agrarische maatschappij
  • Sociologie rurale
  • Paysannerie
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 423-427.
Contents
pt. 1. The social structure of peasantry -- pt. 2. The peasantry as an economy -- pt. 3. The peasantry as a class -- pt. 4. The peasantry as a culture -- pt. 5. 'Them' -- the peasantry as an object of policies of the modern state.
ISBN
  • 0140801707
  • 9780140801705
LCCN
76028645
OCLC
  • ocm00195225
  • 195225
  • SCSB-8964432
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library