What is the anthropological meaning of the term peasants?

a. Rural people who live by a combination of subsistence agriculture and market sale
b. People who do not own the land where they work
c. Uneducated rural people who are wards of the state
d. Rural people who attempt to live self-sufficiently off of very small plots of land


ANSWER:
a

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