”Sleeps and wakes with viticulture”

Peasant and post-peasant farming in the light of sustainability, using the example of Villány viticulture

Authors

  • Pál Géza Balogh University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9769-7710
  • Réka Kurucz University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8084-3424

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15170/PSK.2023.SI.05

Keywords:

sustainability, small-scale viticulture, (bio)cultural heritage, Villány wine region

Abstract

Over the past decades, the meeting of ecology and ethnography and anthropology has resulted in a flourishing new research field, ethnobiology and ethno-ecology, the study of traditional ecological knowledge and local knowledge. The question of these research findings and their adaptation is becoming increasingly important as trends in the ecological crisis intensify. After a general introduction, the present paper presents the results of research into small-scale peasant viticulture in the Villány wine-growing region using ethnographic fieldwork tools in the period 1940-1960. It attempts to interpret the local knowledge and farmers’ attitudes from the point of view of sustainability and environmental protection, and raises the question of the usability of certain knowledge today.

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Published

2023-08-28