Social Structure and Land Property in Romanian Villages (1919-1989)
Social Structure and Land Property in Romanian Villages (1919-1989)

Summary/Abstract: The article compares two different cultural meanings of land property: the modern one, developed in Western societies in the context of modernization, and the traditional one, which still prevails to some extent in Romanian villages. I argue that in the traditional environment of Romanian villages, land was rather the collective property of groups (mostly or families), regarded less as merchandise to be sold or bought and more as a survival mean.

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