Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest

Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance and that ultimately determines how land tenure and the personality of rural communities evolve.

Author: Sonya Salamon
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/11/1995
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.08w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780807845530

About the Author
Salamon, Sonya: - Sonya Salamon is research professor in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is author of Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland.