the word peasant was formally defined by Eric Wolf, cultural anthropologist, who insisted that peasants were no more than “rural cultivators” whose surpluses are transferred to a dominant group of rulers who uses the surpluses to underwrite their own standard of living and in turn distributes the remainder to other groups in the societya group of people who are all interdependent and interconnected by their cultural connections; they live in patterned ways and their behaviors in various circumstances are well established; for instance in the Western world most people adhere to lines (cue) at bus stops, or movie theaters, or when checking out at a grocery store; patterned and regular ways of doing things are expected and accepted who do not farm, but need to be fed because they produce goods and services useful to the society as a whole