campesinos
Latin American farmers
Campesinos is a Spanish word for peasant farmers or rural agricultural workers, used in English particularly when discussing Latin American contexts.
The term often carries political connotations, especially in discussions of land reform, agrarian movements, and revolutionary struggles.
The campesinos organized to demand redistribution of the hacienda lands.
Unlike the neutral "farmers," campesinos frequently implies a class of subsistence farmers working land they don't own.
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- sharecroppersFarmers paying rent in crops
- villagersInhabitants of small settlements
- smallholdersFarmers of modest plots
- tenantsProperty renters
landless · farmhands · tillers · crofters · serfs · peons · braceros · marginalized
Cultivating land for food
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
harvesting · irrigation · cropland · husbandry · agronomy · soil · terracing · subsistence
Gathering mature crops
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
weeding · transplanting · picking · reaping · mowing · winnowing · scything · pruning
Inherited cultural legacy
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- fiestaFestive public celebration
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
rituals · celebrations · handicrafts · music · dance · festival · cuisine · costumes
peasants
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- sharecroppersFarmers paying rent in crops
- villagersInhabitants of small settlements
- smallholdersFarmers of modest plots
tenants · landless · farmhands · tillers · crofters · serfs · peons · braceros · marginalized · dispossessed
farming
Cultivating land for food
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- plowingTurning earth for crops
sowing · harvesting · irrigation · cropland · husbandry · agronomy · soil · terracing · subsistence · arable
harvest
Gathering mature crops
threshing · weeding · transplanting · picking · reaping · mowing · winnowing · scything · pruning · hoeing
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- fiestaFestive public celebration
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
traditions · rituals · celebrations · handicrafts · music · dance · festival · cuisine · costumes · storytelling
countryside
Rural area beyond towns
campo · mountains · valleys · highlands · lowlands · remote · isolated · dusty · rustic · adobe
- ColombiaBogota, Medellin, Cali, Colombian flag, Colombian coffee
- Latin American farminghaciendas, maize, cacao, bananas, coffee farms
- Spanish countrysidepueblo, hamlet, farmhouse, farmhouses, finca
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
campesinoslandowners
Holders of real property
ranchers · landed gentry · plantation owners · oligarchs · feudal lords
campesinoscity dwellers
People living in metropolises
urbanites · metropolitans · industrial workers · factory workers · cosmopolitans
campesinosoligarchs
Wealthy few who govern
aristocrats · elites · ruling class · feudal lords · overseers