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peasant

vr.tr.peasant · SOC.PER

Let an agent explain peasants and peasant societies historically and today with attribution, describe legal statuses such as serfdom, present modern smallholder issues neutrally, and note the connotations of the term.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain peasants and peasant societies historically and today with attribution, describe legal statuses such as serfdom, present modern smallholder issues neutrally, and note the connotations of the term.

A member of a rural agricultural class who works the land as a smallholder, tenant or labourer, historically bound by obligations to landlords or the state as in serfdom, and found in societies from medieval Europe and Japan to modern smallholder farming, including groups such as milkmaids, coachmen and landless labourers; peasant societies are studied in history, anthropology and development and the term carries varied connotations.

What it is for: Rural agricultural classes.

It can be explain peasant societies and statuses; describe serfdom and rural obligations; present modern smallholder issues; note connotations of the term.

Distinguishing features

Rural class

Land-based livelihood

Historical obligations

Varied connotations

What it looks like

Not physical; a social class of rural cultivators.

How it is recognised

Rural cultivators, often with obligations

Historical and modern senses

Farmers as commercial producers and landowners differ in status

Related models

is a kind of - category

farmer

is a kind of - category

agricultural worker

is related to - labour history

worker

is related to - rural inequality

social inequality

In practice

Families and kinds

medieval European peasants and serfs

Japanese and other Asian peasant classes

Russian peasants and specific roles such as yamshik

landless labourers and fugitive peasants

modern smallholders and peasant movements

Standards and regulation

Historical land and serfdom laws

Modern land rights and rural labour law

UN declaration on the rights of peasants

Failure modes and hazards

Using peasant as a slur

Romanticising or denigrating rural life

Anachronism across periods and regions

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.peasant-2

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand Who peasants were and are.

Concepts.

Definition

Definition and statuses.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What defines a peasant in this period and region, and how did statuses such as serf, tenant, smallholder and landless labourer differ? provenance
  2. Is the term being used descriptively or as a slur? boundary

Roles

Specific roles.

Roles

Roles.

  1. What were roles such as milkmaid, yamshik, mizunomi-byakusho or industrial serfs, according to historians? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific role? action
History Peasant societies in history.

Attribution.

Serfdom

Serfdom and obligations.

Serfdom

Serfdom.

  1. How did serfdom and peasant obligations work, and how were they abolished, according to historians? provenance
  2. What happened to fugitive peasants? provenance

Revolts

Peasant revolts and movements.

Revolts

Revolts.

  1. Which peasant revolts and movements were significant, and how do historians interpret them? provenance
  2. Are positions attributed neutrally? boundary
Today Peasants and smallholders today.

Development.

Smallholders

Modern smallholders.

Smallholders

Smallholders.

  1. What is the situation of smallholder and peasant farmers today, according to development organisations and peasant movements? provenance
  2. What does the UN declaration on the rights of peasants provide? provenance

Debates

Land and food debates.

Debates

Debates.

  1. What are the attributed positions in debates on land reform, agroecology and food sovereignty? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Learn Study and culture.

Context.

Culture

Peasants in culture.

Culture

Culture.

  1. How have peasants been represented in art, literature and folklore? provenance
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

Research

Researching peasant history.

Research

Research.

  1. Which sources and archives document peasant life, and how are they used in family history? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should serfdom be a separate entry?
  • How should historical sources be linked?
  • How should peasant movements be attributed?