Peasants by Maryam Aslany review – why an ancient way of life may hold the key to our future
Modernity means cities – or so we’re told. This bold new study of those who make their living from the land argues otherwiseThe word “peasant” has a negative edge: it has come to mean someone ignorant, unsophisticated, lowborn. Such an attitude, writes Maraym Aslany in this impressive piece of anthropology-cum-history, is “a residue of the massive psychodrama which made us…
Modernity means cities – or so we’re told. This bold new study of those who make their living from the land argues otherwiseThe word “peasant” has a negative edge: it has come to mean someone ignorant, unsophisticated, lowborn. Such an attitude, writes Maraym Aslany in this impressive piece of anthropology-cum-history, is “a residue of the massive psychodrama which made us…
