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Saturday, November 06, 2004, 08:10
On Katherine Verdery's new book on the return of the peasantry in Romania
Transitions Online Book Review
Unusual things are happening in the countryside in Romania. While in other parts of the world megacities and megaslums are increasingly the norm, in Romania as well as in some of its neighbors, there has been an overall increase of the rural population and in the numbers of small farming plots.
In earlier studies of rural Central and Eastern Europe, Western commentators were often not very polite, usually referring to the peasant economies as "backward" or "primitive." A recent book by American anthropologist Katherine Verdery, written after 30 years of fieldwork research in Romania, offers some alternative versions of the changes in rural life and reasons behind the supposedly irrational behavior of rural people.
One of the aims of her book, which is principally an anthropological account of property, is to show how social relations, between individuals and between groups, have a profound impact on how people can actually use their property.
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