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Social Stratification and Land Inheritance Among Austrian Peasants 1
Author(s) -
KHERA SIGRID
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.3.02a00120
Subject(s) - inheritance (genetic algorithm) , peasant , social stratification , stratification (seeds) , sociology , genealogy , social mobility , mode (computer interface) , geography , history , social science , archaeology , biology , genetics , seed dormancy , germination , botany , dormancy , gene , computer science , operating system
The mode of land inheritance is an important factor in the formation of and relationship between strata in a peasant society. Here the different effects of undivided and divided land inheritance on kin relations with the subsequent consequences for social mobility between strata are discussed.