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Farm succession in modern Ireland: elements of a theory of inheritance
Rural change in Ireland • Belfast • Published In 1999 • Pages: 116-142
By: Kennedy, Liam.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents a model for family farm inheritance and succession based on the historiography and ethnography of rural Ireland, and using 1901-1931 demographic data from four economically distinct rural townships. Inheritance and succession are conceptualized in exchange terms. Under the model, recruitment of heirs depends on farm size, with the practice of partible inheritance on large farms and primogeniture or ultimogeniture on small farms. The author observes that the failure of large-scale capitalist farms to displace the small family farm is due in part to flexible inheritance practices and institutions of family and kinship.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Tillage
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Regulation of marriage
- Household
- Towns
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 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
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1911-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Liam Kennedy
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99530979
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ireland--Rural conditions