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Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Keywords

modern peasant, Swiss Culture, peasantry

Abstract

Traditional anthropological wisdom holds that peasantry as a cultural type is declining in the modern world as the social and economic conditions for its existence disappear. Modern peasant community studies, therefore, often trace the transformation that is occurring throughout the world as typically peasant communities change and new "post-peasants'' emerge .

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