num_pages: 318
description: 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.
language: English
title: Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest
titlecomplete: Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)
genres: Sociology
ratings_count: 10
series: Studies in Rural Culture
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press