The village of Viriatino
Book 1970 Benet, Sula

RussiansEurope > Eastern Europe
Written by a team of nine Russian ethnographers, each responsible for a chapter, this book discusses a century of change and continuity in the socioeconomic conditions of a peasant community. Pre-revolutionary life was characterized by exploitative a...

Abkhasians: the long-living people of the Caucasus
Book 1974 Benet, Sula

AbkhaziansAsia > Caucasus
The focus of this study is on the Abkhazian cultural system with a particular emphasis on the various factors that apparently make it possible for an exceptionally large number of individuals in the society to live to very advanced age without the us...