Who are peasants and describe characteristics peasants and peasantry.

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord.In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants may hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.

The credit for defining peasants goes to A.L. Kroeber. According to him, “Peasants  constitute part-societies with part-  cultures. They are definitely rural – yet live in relation to market towns; they form a class segment of a larger  population which  usually contains also urban centers... They lack isolation, the political autonomy, and self-  sufficiency of tribal populations; but their local units _________ ________ __________ _______ ________ ___ ____.
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