Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas

Résumé

Conference report on social implications of land reform and related rural area social change in developing countries and Eastern Europe, from a social and cultural anthropology vantage point - examines transformation of traditional cultures and modernization, impacts of agricultural development and rural development on cultural change, agrarian reform and bureaucracy, land settlement schemes, subsistence farming, tribal peoples and lower class proletarization, etc. Bibliographys, maps and photographs. Conference held in oshkosh 1973 aug 28 to 30.