Prairie Patrimony
Subtitle: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 11, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780807845530
Subjects: Rural communities; Social history; Rural Sociology; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Sociology - Rural; Social Science / Sociology / Rural; anthropology; rural studies;  ethnographic study ; Illinois; farming; cultural patrimony; farm management; agriculture
First sentence: Practices of contemporary Illinois farmers are best understood by starting with the past, the source of cultural patterns that order action (Bloch 1985; Ortner 1990; Sahlins 1981).