IDNO

P.7966.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Germanic village, Ripley, p.241.

Aerial drawing of the Germanic village of Geusa, Saxony-Anhalt. [JD 3/11/2009]

Place

W Europe; Germany; Saxony-Anhalt; Geusa [Prussian Saxony]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: The image was published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.246, with the following caption:
“Germanic Village. Geusa, Prussian Saxony.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: The following text is found in Ripley, 1913, pp.240-241:
“Our second diagram represents one of these village types. Contrast either of these simple and systematic settlements with the one plotted in our third map. This Germanic village is utterly irregular. The houses face in every direction, and streets and lanes cross and recross in delightfully hop-scotch fashion. Nor is the agrarian organization of this Germanic village by any means simple. Divided into small plots or "hides," so called, a certain number of each kind are, or were once, assigned by lot in rotation to the heads of households. These " hides " were scattered all about the village, so that a peasant might be cultivating twenty or more parcels of land at one time. The organization was highly complex, including ordinances as to the kind of crops to be raised, and other similar matters of detail. We shall not attempt even to outline such a "Hufenverfassung" ; for us it must suffice to note the complexity of the type, as opposed to the Slavic form.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]