<P> Commonly, bur would be translated into English as "boor". </P> <P> Since the literate classes have left the most records, and these tended to dismiss peasants as figures of coarse appetite and rustic comedy, the term "peasant" may have a pejorative rather than descriptive connotation in historical memory . Society was theorized as being organized into three "estates": those who work, those who pray, and those who fight . The Annales School of French historians emphasized the importance of peasants . Its leader Fernand Braudel devoted the first volume--called The Structures of Everyday Life--of his major work, Civilization and Capitalism 15th--18th Century to the largely silent and invisible world that existed below the market economy . </P> <P> Other research in the field of peasant studies was promoted by Florian Znaniecki and Fei Xiaotong, and in the post-1945 studies of the "great tradition" and the "little tradition" in the work of Robert Redfield . In the 1960s, anthropologists and historians began to rethink the role of peasant revolt in world history and in their own disciplines . Peasant revolution was seen as a Third World response to capitalism and imperialism . </P> <P> The anthropologist Eric Wolf, for instance, drew on the work of earlier scholars in the Marxist tradition such as Daniel Thorner, who saw the rural population as a key element in the transition from feudalism to capitalism . Wolf and a group of scholars criticized both Marx and the field of modernization theorists for treating peasants as lacking the ability to take action . James C. Scott's field observations in Malaysia convinced him that villagers were active participants in their local politics even though they were forced to use indirect methods . Many of these activist scholars looked back to the peasant movement in India and to the theories of the revolution in China led by Mao Zedong starting in the 1920s . The anthropologist Myron Cohen, however, asked why the rural population in China were called "peasants" rather than "farmers", a distinction he called political rather than scientific . One important outlet for their scholarly work and theory was the Journal of Peasant Studies . </P>

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