Abstract
Abstract This paper summarizes the first partial results of economic anthropological research conducted in the Swabian settlement of Mezőfény (Romanian: Foieni) in Satu Mare County (Romania). The aim of the research is to describe the livelihood and income-earning strategies among agricultural production groups in local society and to interpret different forms of economic adaptation (individual, household and community level) in the settlement within the context of the post-socialist transformation from a planned to a capitalist market economy.
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Unauthenticated | Downloaded 02/01/22 09:51 AM UTC based on about four weeks of fieldwork and participant observation, focusing on the contemporary conditions of several Swabian settlements in Satu Mare County,2 with a special emphasis on the economic, social and political changes in local communities after the regime change
The aim of the analysis is to describe the most important economic strategies and income-earning techniques of local groups involved in agricultural production
In my study, summarizing the first experiences of economic anthropological research conducted in a Swabian settlement in Satu Mare County (Mezőfény), I sought to answer the question of how local groups specializing in agricultural production adapted to the changed political, economic and social environment – new property, land and market relations – with the help of everyday livelihood and income-earning strategies
Summary
Unauthenticated | Downloaded 02/01/22 09:51 AM UTC based on about four weeks of fieldwork and participant observation, focusing on the contemporary conditions of several Swabian settlements in Satu Mare County, with a special emphasis on the economic, social and political changes in local communities after the regime change. Over the past three decades, this – and a number of other factors not specified here – has led to the emergence of very complex, variable patterns of income accumulation and/ or survival strategies on family farms in rural areas (DAVIS 2001; PETI 2013; SOFER – BORDANC 1998). These everyday techniques of economic and socio-cultural adaptation are usually addressed by international literature as the concepts of “diversification” and “pluriactivity”.3
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