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Can I read Prairie Patrimony : Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest on EtoBox?
Prairie Patrimony : Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest by Sonya Salamon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Prairie Patrimony : Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest about?
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance and that ultimately determines how land tenure and the personality of rural communities evolve.
Who reads Prairie Patrimony : Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sonya Salamon
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469616094
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Gender Studies