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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    22 August 2009
    30 August 1991
    ISBN:
    9780511521027
    9780521381000
    9780521026451
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521027
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.454kg, 224 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.352kg, 224 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology, Economic History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (81)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology, Economic History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (81)
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    Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area. It pays detailed attention to the adaptability of farming families in a rapidly changing world. Subjects treated include marriage and the family, work and mechanization, succession to farms, and the paradoxical combination of fierce individualism and co-operation. Two major themes of the book are the relation between law and custom, which is not always what it seems on the surface, and the complex interlocking of farm, family and the wider society.

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    ‘… a formidable account of social relationships and social institutions, the kind of systematic sociology that is all too often neglected in contemporary ethnography … Abrahams is to be commeneded for producing a thought-provoking study …’.

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