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27. May N. Diaz and Jack M. Potter, 'Introduction; The Social Life of Peasants',
in Jack M. Potter et al. Peasant Society: A Reader, Boston, Little, Brown and
Company, 1967, p. 155.
28. Daniel Thomer, 'Peasant Economy as a Category of History', in Teodor
Shanin, Peasants and Peasant Societies: Selected Readings, Oxford, Basil
BlackweU Ltd., 1989, p. 66.
29. Sutti Ortiz, 'Peasant Culture, Peasant Economy' in ibid., pp. 300-301.
30. Susanne Wegmann, The Swiss in Australia, Gmsch, Veriag Ruegger, 1989,
p.l5.
31. Cheda (1979) Vol, 1, pp, 41-45,
32. ibid,, p, 46.
33. ibid.
34. From the end of the seventeenth century, polenta had become a flour substitute
made from indigenous products such as com, barley and chestnuts. In time of
famine, other less palatable food sources would be used.
35. GentiUi (1988) p. 2.
36. ibid.
37. ibid,
38. Cheda(1979)VolI, p, 113.
39. Tony PagUaro, 'The Ticinesi in Australia', in Conference Proceedings, Italians
in Australia Conference 1985; Australia's ItaUan Heritage Conference 1986,
Melboume, Vaccari ItaUan Historical Tmst, rev, ed,, 1987, p, 23.
40. G, Tomasetti, The Swiss at Blampied... The Irish at Eganstown, unpublished,
1974. Copy held State Library of Victoria.
465