Proper Peasants

Social Relations in a Hungarian Village

Tamas Hofer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

484 Seiten

2008
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-36233-5 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Edit Fel was a research fellow at the Ethnographical Museum in Budapest. Tamas Hofer is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Philosophical Faculty, Eotvos Lorand University and Director Emeritus, Museum of Ethnography, Budapest.

Introduction; 1: The Village And Its People; 1: The Village; 2: The Land: The Határ of Átány; 3: The People; 2: The Family; 4: The House and The Kert; 5: The Family; 6: The Members of the Family; 7: Marriage; 3: The Network of Social Relations; 8: Consanguinity, Affinity, and Fictive Kin-Ties; 9: Local Ties; 10: Age Groups; 11: Two Family Celebrations; 4: Ways Of Life And Social Strata; 12: Varieties And Levels Of Subsistence; 13: The Ways To Wealth And Poverty; 14: The Role Of Social Stratification In Everyday Behavior; 5: The Community; 15: ÁtÁny As A Unified Whole; 16: Religion; 17: Administration And Government; 18: ÁtÁny In The Country; EPILOGUE: THE “PROPER PEASANTS” OF Átány

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2008
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1043 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-202-36233-7 / 0202362337
ISBN-13	978-0-202-36233-5 / 9780202362335
Zustand	Neuware