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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0202362337
ISBN-13
9780202362335
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64207518
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
484 Pages
Publication Name
Proper Peasants : Social Relations in a Hungarian Village
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
36.7 Oz
Item Length
9.9 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2008-002628
Reviews
"Proper Peasants deals with a Hungarian village and describes some of the institutions of its society... This venture has its meaning not only in the context of Hungarian national culture, but also, we believe, in the light of the anthropolgist's goal of recording and analyzing those forms and conditions of life under which mankind has lived in the past and is living today." --Current Anthropology "Credit is due to all those who have made this fine example of central European community studies accessible to Anglo-American social anthropologists and others not well acquainted with the considerable achievements of this genre. The authors, Edit Fl and Tams Hofer, have taken pains to make the work a bridge between their own scholarly tradition and the Anglophone social anthropological idiom... The book has the welcome charm of not exhausting itself in routine generalizations." --W. Weissleder, Man "Proper Peasants is the result of over 14 years of field work done by two Hungarian ethnographers and published in cooperation with the Wenner-Gren Foundation.... It is to be hoped that similar cooperative projects will be conducted again. Such efforts are to be encouraged, not only because they give English readers access to the relatively inaccessible fruits of Central European ethnographers' labors but also because the cross-fertilization enriches both ethnographic traditions. Proper Peasants should be read by anyone with an interest in Europe or in peasant societies." --Richard Ackley, American Sociological Review "Fl and Hofer have produced a rich and detailed monograph using historical data which on population at least starts in 1780, and for several other factors is extensive in the nineteenth century... [I]t is a most welcome addition to European ethnography available in English." --Peter Lozos, The British Journal of Sociology "The express purpose of the authors of this valuable and welcome addition to the English-language literature on Central Europe is to provide British and American social anthropologists with an example of the tradition of European ethnography that is rooted in concern with the unique contributions local peasant culture has made to the fabric of national life in particular European states... [A]n excellent piece of European ethnography... [P]articularly valuable for the specialist in Eastern Europe, because of the dearth of materials on Hungary in any language other than Hungarian; no student of this area can afford not to study it. It also illustrates as a fundamental point, useful for those of us who are both researchers and teachers: meaningful portrayals of social life are better achieved when the native turns anthropologist than when the anthropologist tries to become a native." --E. A. Hammel, American Anthropologist
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.5/633094398
Synopsis
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 chapters describe units of social organization and the human relationships within and among these units. There is a special analysis of stratification and mobility within the changing structural situations of the past hundred years. Objective information about all the dimensions of village life is obtained from a comparison of Átány with nearby villages and from the use of local records. The book portrays the attempts of the community to classify, organize, and understand the universe within which lives and to control the unexpected and varied demands that have been made upon it by changing circumstances.This work makes excellent use of the strong 150-year tradition of ethnographic research in Hungary. The discussion of the warm personal relationships among the Átány people is supplemented with extensive statistical material on demographic processes, economic structure, and stratification. The picture that results is rich and fruitful, particularly so in a post-communist nation., 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 t ny 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 F l and Tam s Hofer begin by locating t ny within the historical, geographical, and cultural context of Hungary as a whole. The following chapters describe units of social organization and the human relationships within and among these units. There is a special analysis of stratification and mobility within the changing structural situations of the past hundred years. Objective information about all the dimensions of village life is obtained from a comparison of t ny with nearby villages and from the use of local records. The book portrays the attempts of the community to classify, organize, and understand the universe within which lives and to control the unexpected and varied demands that have been made upon it by changing circumstances.This work makes excellent use of the strong 150-year tradition of ethnographic research in Hungary. The discussion of the warm personal relationships among the t ny people is supplemented with extensive statistical material on demographic processes, economic structure, and stratification. The picture that results is rich and fruitful, particularly so in a post-communist nation., Centering on the village of Atany in central Hungary, this study presents an account of peasant life. It locates Atany within the historical, geographical, and cultural context of Hungary as a whole. It also describes units of social organization and the human relationships within and among these units.
LC Classification Number
HD1536.H9F47 2008
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