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Author Hofer, Tamas

Title Proper Peasants : Social Relations in a Hungarian Village
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Contents Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents ; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF TABLES ; INTRODUCTION; Hungarian Ethnographers in a Hungarian Village; The Research at Atany; The Present Study; A Note on the Use of Hungarian Words; PART ONE: THE VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE; CHAPTER 1. THE VILLAGE; Atany's Place among the Hungarian Villages; The Past; The Appearance of the Village; CHAPTER 2 . THE LAND: THE Hatar OF ATANY; The Fields; Agriculture; Land Tenure; Working in the Fields; CHAPTER 3. THE PEOPLE; The Population of Atany
A Sunday Church Service: How the People of Atany See Their Own Society PART TWO : THE FAMILY; CHAPTER 4 . TH E HOUSE AND THE Kert; The House; The Kert; CHAPTER 5. THE FAMILY; A Workday in the Family of Jozsef Kakas; The Forms of the Family and Its Division of Labor; CHAPTER 6. THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY; The Gazda; The Gazdasszony; Children; Vo, Meny; Other Members of the Household; CHAPTER 7. MARRIAGE; Choice of Mate; Forms of Marriage; PART THREE: THE NETWORK OF SOCIAL RELATIONS; CHAPTER 8. CONSANGUINITY, AFFINITY, AND FICTIVE KIN-TIES; Groups of Consanguines; Rokonsag; Nasz-s; Affinity
The Baptismal KomaCHAPTER 9. LOCAL TIES; Divisions of the Village; Neighborhood, ; Tanyakert; CHAPTER 10. AGE GROUPS; Groups of Children; Koma-s and Matka-s; Activities of Koma and Matka Groups during Adolescence; Middle-Aged Men and Women; Old People; CHAPTER 11. Two FAMILY CELEBRATIONS; The Wedding; The Funeral; PART FOUR: WAYS OF LIFE AND SOCIAL STRATA; CHAPTER 12. VARIETIES AND LEVELS OF SUBSISTENCE; Team Owners; Teamless Farmers; Herdsmen; Farm Hands and Tobacco Growers; Non-peasants in the Village; CHAPTER 13. THE WAYS TO WEALTH AND POVERTY
The Rise and Decline of Individuals and FamiliesThe Order of Succession; The Careers of Three Families; Mobility in the Last One Hundred Years; CHAPTER 14. THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN EVERYDAY BEHAVIOR; Differences in Way of Life; Rank and Prestige; Relationships between the Strata; PART FIVE: THE COMMUNITY; CHAPTER 15. ATANY AS A UNIFIED WHOLE; CHAPTER 16. RELIGION; The Calvinist Reformed Church; The Parish of Atany; CHAPTER 17. ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT; Pasture Associations; Other Community Organizations; The Local Government; CHAPTER 18. ATANY IN THE COUNTRY
Atany among the Neighboring VillagesEconomic Relations between Atany and Other Areas; The School; The Law of the Land in Atany; Military Service; Politics; The Nation and Patriotism; EPILOGUE: THE ""PROPER PEASANTS"" OF ATANY; APPENDIXES ; A. Biographical Data on Some Atany Informants and Their Families; B.A Description of Atany Placed in the Foundation of the Official Residence of the Village Secretary, 1901; C. Curriculum of the Atany Boy's School in 1811; D. Golden Alphabet-Rules of Life
Notes E. The Farewell of the Bride from Her Father's House and Her Entrance into the House of Her Father-in-Law
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Subject Farm life -- Hungary -- Átány
Farm life
Hungary -- Átány
Form Electronic book
Author Hofer, Tamas
ISBN 9781351496308
1351496301