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peasantness en · NOUN

Etymology

From peasant + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The lifestyle or status of a peasant.
    • Ethnicity as a dimension of social identity thus contrasts with peasantness in not being based primarily in the productionist assumptions of the latter term. 2018, Michael Kearney, Reconceptualizing The Peasantry:
    • The China case was also incorporated in an international debate that centered on the conflict between conserving “peasantness” versus “peasant elimination” in the course of development and globalization (Bernstein 2006; Ellis 2000; Kitching 2001; Zaputovich 2009). 2014, Anna Ahlers, Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: