Shaping Modern Times in Rural France - The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community

Name: Shaping Modern Times in Rural France - The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community
Price: 6.96 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691028583

ISBN-10: 0691028583

ISBN-13: 9780691028583

Edition: 1991

Authors: Susan Carol Rogers

List price: $49.95

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $52.55

Marketplace

5 new & used from $6.96

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/21/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Snapshots from a Moving Picture



Introduction


The Setting


The Questions



Variations on a Theme: Cultural Specificities and Economic Change in Ste Foy, Aveyron


The Aveyron: A French Hinterland


Ste Foy: The Riches of Roquefort


Conclusions



Ste Foy's Soul: The Principles of the Ostal System


Essential Elements


Management of Adversity


Negotiations of Difference


Conclusions



Ties That Cut and Bind: Ostals in the Community


Interactions Among Ostals


Bourg and Campagne


Conclusions



Real Ostals in a Changing World


Terms of Analysis


Patterns of Change


Conclusions



New Crises: Structures and Change in Ste Foy


The Bride Shortage, 1960-1975


The Municipal Crisis of 1975


Conclusions



Conclusions


Closing Scenes


On France


On Family History


On Social Change and Culture in the Modern World



Estimations of Ostal Domestic Life Cycles



Succession of Households on a Ste Foyan Hamlet


Bibliography-Aveyron


General


Index