The Life of Property : House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France.

In Béarn, a region of south-west France, longstanding and resilient ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and intellectual history, this stud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Timothy, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2010.
Colección:Contemporary European History, 21.
Temas:
Béarn.
Béarn (France)
Social sciences.
History.
Social Sciences
History
Sciences sociales.
Histoire.
social sciences.
history (discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Social sciences
France > Béarn
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Béarn, a region of south-west France, longstanding and resilient ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and intellectual history, this study explores the long-term continuities of this particular way of life within a broad framework. These local ideas have found expression twice at the national level. First, sociological arguments about the family, proposed by Frédéric Le Play, shaped debates on social reform and the repair of national.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (194 pages).
ISBN:9781845458232
1845458230

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