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Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance and that ultimately determines how land tenure and the personality of rural communities evolve.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Monograph on rural sociology and the sociological aspects of agricultural development in developing countries - covers land tenure, cultivation techniques, agrarian reform, rural communitys and community development, social stratification, farm size, etc. One-page bibliography.