Book
A Slovenian village: Žerovnica
Brown University Press • Providence, R.i. • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Winner, Irene.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book examines the impact of modernization on the social structure of a peasant village in the Cerknica basin of Slovenia. Winner attributes the relative stability of village social life and organization since 1848 to two counteracting practices: primogenture and village endogamy. Even when villagers emigrated, many eventually returned to establish their own homesteads. In the post-World War II period, industrialization provided local employment for landless progeny. Work in factories and local government also provided new avenues for social mobility, forming the basis of a new elite. Although short on labor, peasant-farmers were reluctant to sell land which they see as a form of long-term security. Since the failure of collectivization and subsequent reforms (1953), the state has largely ignored small-holders, denying them political representation and with it the means to transform and improve their way of life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Cooperative organization
- Household
- Towns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Slovenes
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 5-9/1964, 5-8/1965, Summer 1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zerovnica, Slovenia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Irene Winner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-260)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77127367
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Slovenes