Farming as a Way of Life: Yugoslav Peasant Attitudes
Joel M. Halpern
DATE: January 1967
SOURCE: Soviet and East European Agriculture, pp. 356-381
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ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT:
This essay draws on two of my articles published earlier: "Yugoslav Peasant Society in Transition-Stability in Change," Anthropological Quarterly, XXXVI (July, 1963) and "Peasant Culture and Urbanization in Yugoslavia," Human Organization, XMV:2 (Summer, 1965). It is based on research carried out in Yugoslavia during 1961-1962 and in the summer of 1964, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and counterpart funds from the Department of State. The present discussion includes a preliminary survey of some of the field data, a more complete analysis of which will be published later. Part of the field data was gathered by Yugoslav students, with organizational support from university authorities in Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, and Sarajevo. Vida and Theodore Tarnovsky assisted in the United States, and helpful comments on a preliminary version of the essay were received from Dimitri Shimkin and Jozo Tomasevich. To these varied sources of assistance appreciation is gratefully expressed. A fuller discussion of the general question of social change in Yugoslavia may be found in the author's study "Yugoslavia: Modernization in an Ethnically Diverse State" in Rex Hopper, ed., Social Change: Studies of a World in Transition (New York: Macmillan, 1966).