La agricultura y la sociedad rural en la obra de Julio Caro Baroja (1914-1995)

Abstract

This article analyses the contribution of Julio Caro Baroja to rural studies. Through a close reading of the author's works on traditional agriculture and the rural world, we introduce his main themes, methodology and ideas, stressing the breakthroughs in many of these lines and theoretical approaches. Julio Caro Baroja's perspective, that combines historical and ethnographic analyses, contributes in a unique and very valuable way to researchers today, whether historians, sociologists or anthropologists.