The connection of the category death is considered in context natural, economic, social, spiritual existence a peasant. Subjective and objective factors influencing idea are analyzed. dependence peasant life on environment revealed, since nature occupies special place structure mentality. article contains proverbs, sayings from fairy tales, confirming that an individual was unsteady, constantly...

suggestion, appropriately in the year of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, that unrest among peasants, triggered by symptoms of ergot poisoning, contributed to the events leading up to that revolution. This engaging theory is supported by a great many "puzzling facts", "clues" which purport to show that "in the summer of 1789 many French citizens may have suffered from ergot poisoning" ...

Grinding mills were a routine attribute of the economic life peasantry, being an indispensable stage in process making bread. Yet these structures are hardly ever specifically researched by historians and anthropologists. This paper examines socio-economic role peasants early 20th century Karelia. The study is based on analysis archival statistical data from agricultural census 1916 as well eth...

Introduction. The paper addresses the issues of development professional education police officers in post-revolutionary Eastern Siberia 1920s. archival documents were used to study forms and methods training young workers peasants’ police. main them school reserve practical off-duty on-duty hours. also focused on that interfered with and, eventually, did not allow single system for policemen b...

The article analyzes the letters of 1857–1858 by Demian Kochubey (1786–1859), a high-ranking official in St. Petersburg, to his relative Hryhorii Galagan (1819–1888), public figure, both whom belonged top local nobility Left-bank Ukraine. main theme these important epistolary texts is preparation for abolition serfdom. This example demonstrates significant information potential materials study ...

author of the award-winning book A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Her work has had national and international impact, within both academic and policy circles, on the neglected issue of women's rights in property, especially land. is a pamphlet series developed to meet requests from all over the world for information about innovative and practical program ideas develop...

The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that high-status parents will bias their investment to sons, whereas low-status parents will bias their investment to daughters. Among humans, tests of this hypothesis have yielded mixed results. This study tests the hypothesis using data collected among contemporary peasants in Central South China. We use current family status (rated by our informants) a...