Armenian Village Life Before 1914 is a non-fiction book by Susie Hoogasian Villa and Mary Kilbourne Matossian, published in 1982 by Wayne State University Press.
The historical sourcing included studies of the anthropology of the area in areas near Ottoman Armenia as well as narratives of trabeling in the region and ethnography documents made by Soviet ethnic Armenians.
[2] Villa had sent the manuscript of the book to the publisher which allowed other people to complete the work.
[1] Avakian and Halpern wrote that the work is "an excellent beginning" to documenting the lives of families of pre-genocide Armenian settlements in the Ottoman Empire.
[2] Daniel G. Bates of Hunter College described the work as a "labor of love" and stated that the interviewing gave the book value.