Original scientific paper

From »old« rurality to »new«

Maja Štambuk

Abstract

The sense of belonging to the village
develops and is demonstrated in very
complex ways that are difficult to fully
explain. In this article the author tries to
systematize only some levels and
components of rurality. On the material
level she analyses how land, agriculture
and landscape »produce« the force that
the village creates and shapes rurality.
The second level essential in defining
rurality is the social (and individual) level;
the individual with his characteristics,
roles, stands, physical features, followed
by the family, and intertined family
connections. At the very end is the local
social community — the village itself. To
the network of immediate social relations
can be added the network of more
removed relations, and those with
nonrural and non-peasant institutions and
groups.
These dynamic interrelations and the
relations all the factors have to the land,
agriculture and the landscape create and
express rurality as a very firm link
between the individual and the
community, between man and the
environment, between work and life.

Keywords

Hrčak ID:

119788

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/119788

Publication date:

10.12.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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