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PEASANTRY [2 records]

Record 1 1999-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Anthropology
DEF

Peasants collectively; a body of peasants.

CONT

Peasantry. The one remaining category of non-urban society is the peasant. Peasants are not nomadic but sedentary (thus distinguishable from both hunting-gathering societies and pastoralists); they are not horticultural tribal societies but more intensively and fully agricultural; and neither are they urban, like populations who lived in the centres of the classic civilizations. Except for a few other characteristics, however, writers on peasantry have not agreed on a precise definition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole
  • Anthropologie
DEF

[...] ensemble des paysans.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

The condition of being a peasant ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Condition des paysans ou ensemble des paysans.

Spanish

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