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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 largely upon evidence given by villagers themselves and is a moving human story of a community with a tragic historical background and a complex, demanding present.Edit Fél and Tamás Hofer begin by locating Átány within the historical, geographical, and cultural context of Hungary as a whole. The following ...
Case study in rural sociology and ethnography of Hungary as an example of traditional social structures and community relations among rural workers - covers historical and geographical aspects, living conditions, family relationships, religion, cultural factors, land tenure, agriculture, leadership, etc. Bibliographys and maps.
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