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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Schubert, Violeta (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Collection:New anthropologies of Europe : perspectives and provocations ; 1
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.