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Changing agricultural strategies in a Kerry parish
Ireland from below • Galway • Published In 1987 • Pages: 187-206
By: Shutes, Mark T..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, the author examines from an individual actor perspective the change from mixed farming to mechanized dairying when Ireland joined the European Common Market. Labor-intensive mixed farming, in which small farm households supplied labor to the larger farms, predominated in the parish for a century prior to 1950. During that period, emigration eventually resulted in labor shortages. The change to mechanized dairy farming is interpreted as a rational choice made by farmers in response to the dwindling labor supply. Social relations in the community also changed, as farms became more competitive with each other and gaps in farm incomes and family status widened. Without the need for outside labor, farmers became more isolated and once neighborly ties dissolved.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Domesticated animals
- Dairying
- Tillage
- Agricultural machinery
- Real property
- Labor and leisure
- Competition
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971, 1976, 1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1841-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- County Kerry, Munster, Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mark T. Shutes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89178213
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ireland--Rural conditions