Shaping modern times in rural France : the transformation and reproduction of an Aveyronnais community /

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Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of &quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogers, Susan Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ethnology > France > Sainte Foy (Aveyron)
Families > France > Sainte Foy (Aveyron)
Social change.
HISTORY / Europe / France
Economic history
Ethnology
Families
Social change
Social conditions
Sainte Foy (Aveyron, France) > Social conditions.
Sainte Foy (Aveyron, France) > Economic conditions.
France > Sainte Foy (Aveyron)
Amicale movement.
Catholic church.
Decazeville.
European Economic Community.
French institutions.
Lorraine.
Occitane.
Rodez.
Rouergue.
Ségala.
agricultural markets.
anthropology.
archival sources.
behavior, aberrant.
bourg: appearance of.
census.
cohabitation.
community relations.
conflict.
education.
fair (monthly).
family history.
family relations.
gros ostals.
household composition.
human agency.
identity: individual.
inheritance.
leisure activities.
migration.
modernization.
municipal crisis.
ostal system.
ostals.
patois.
patron-client ties.
pistonnage.
politics, local.
regionalist movements.
sociability.
social stratification.
sociocultural reproduction.
standards of living.
stem family.
technological innovation.
tourism.
urbanization: of Aveyron.
voluntary associations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of "Ste Foy" during a period of rapid change (1945-75). Using ethnographic field data and archival material that she collected as a "participant-observer," she finds an intriguing puzzle: an allegedly archaic social form, the ostal, has become increasingly common in the community. The ostal, a type of family farm organized around an extended "stem family" household, is a variant of the stem family systems associated with preindustrial southern Europe. How have Ste Foyans continued to remake this "archaic" mode as their community grew more prosperous and more involved in national and international markets? In showing how the specific identity of a community is reproduced rather than obliterated by modernization, the author reveals dialectical relationships between structure and change, history and culture, and the centralized nation-state and regional diversity. This analysis addresses anthropologists, historians, and scholars interested in local politics and economic development.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 231 pages : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.
ISBN:9780691226842
0691226849

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