Modernity and the unmaking of men /

"Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schubert, Violeta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Series:New anthropologies of Europe : perspectives and provocations ; 1
Subjects:
Masculinity > Macedonia.
Older men > Macedonia.
Bachelors > Macedonia.
Masculinité > Macédoine.
Hommes âgés > Macédoine.
Célibataires > Macédoine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Bachelors
Masculinity
Older men
Europe > Macedonia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 'A village is for the old and dead' : the disappearing village scape
  • A kinship frame of mind
  • Marriage and the 'order' of life
  • The invisible significants : women and the androcentric social imaginary
  • The (dis)orderly individual
  • The decoupling of time and order : aging bachelors and the(im)productive ethno-nation
  • Conclusion : on being stuck.

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