Proper Peasants - 9781138530928

Taylor & Francis

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 > 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 \u00C1t\u00E1ny 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 com\u00ADmunity with a tragic historical background and a complex, demanding present.Edit F\u00E9l and Tam\u00E1s Hofer begin by locating \u00C1t\u00E1ny within the historical, geographical, and cultural context of Hungary as a whole. The following chapters describe units of sociy