The specialized meaning "having to do with cultivated land" is recorded by 1792. Originally, and often subsequently, "pertaining to the division or sharing of landed property," which was the Roman sense. Earlier in English asagrarie(1530s), from Latinagraria. As a noun, by 1650s ("Oceana...
In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack. Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices’ closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can’t make it home and back fast enough anyway. So the ...
In short, this is about enjoying a simple, yet elegant and refined way of life. It is a nostalgia for tradition and social order. It is about growing plants and raising animals and understanding the meaning of husbandry and stewardship. It is about understanding our place in the world – t...
In the modern usage of the English word, agriculture covers all activities essential to food, feed, and fiber production, including all techniques for raising and processing livestock. People engaged in such activities are known as a part of agricultural oragrarian society. These societies always wi...
‘shrimp boom’ in the mid 1990s during which time rice fields were converted totambak. Whiletambakstill form an important livelihood for many villagers, the height of the boom has passed, harvests have declined, and chemical inputs and the general cost of maintenance has increased, meaning ...
Another starting point is the proletarization process that is connected to the changing nature of land ownership, meaning that sons and daughters faced growing difficulties to take over the family farm. Thus, the mass migration that leads to settling and homesteading in another land - may it be...
Tawney, brought to his historical study his personal concerns about the proper conduct of human relations, and used his book as a vehicle to instruct his working-class students on the meaning of social justice, whether applied to early modern English agrarian society or to the modern ...
In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack. Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway. So the ...
New Criticism, post-World War I school of Anglo-American literary critical theory that insisted on the intrinsic value of a work of art and focused attention on the individual work alone as an independent unit of meaning. It was opposed to the critical practice of bringing historical or biograp...
In this sense, we approach the topic through the framework provided by Jones [6] for understanding cultural landscapes as elements charged with meaning that possess a cognitive dimension as well. The agrarian landscape is not, then, a passive product of human interaction with the natural ...