Peasants and Peasant Societies: Selected Readings

Teodor Shanin

Peasants and Peasant Societies: Selected Readings - Harmondsworth Penguin Books Ltd 1971 - 448 p. PB 18x11 cm.

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"


Peasantry Peasants
Sociología rural -- Discursos ensayos, conferencias
Sociology, Rural

305.563 / SHAP