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The bachelors' ball : the crisis of peasant society in Béarn

Title
The bachelors' ball : the crisis of peasant society in Béarn / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice.
Author
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Description
vi, 205 pages : illustrations, plan; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Bal des célibataires. English
Alternative Title
Bal des célibataires.
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Note
  • Articles previously published in 1962, 1972, and 1989.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-163) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Bachelorhood and the Peasant Condition -- 1. The system of matrimonial exchanges in traditional peasant society -- 2. Internal contradictions and anomy -- 3. The opposition between the bourg and the hameaux -- 4. The peasant and his body -- Appendix I. Bibliographical notes -- Appendix II. Changes in population, 1836-1954 -- Appendix III. Dialogue between a villager and a peasant -- Appendix IV. Another dialogue between a villager and a bachelor -- Appendix V. The exemplary tale of a younger son from a modest family -- Appendix VI. Excessive maternal authority and bachelorhood -- Appendix VII. An attempt to generalize: bachelorhood in 16 rural cantons in Brittany -- Pt. 2. Matrimonial Strategies in the System of Reproduction Strategies -- Pt. 3. Reproduction Forbidden: The Symbolic Dimension of Economic Domination -- 1. Addenda and corrigenda -- 2. 'From the closed world to the infinite universe' -- 3. The unification of the matrimonial market -- 4. 'Sound opinions of the people' -- Postscript: A class as object.
ISBN
  • 9780226067490 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226067491 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226067506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226067505 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2007042593
  • 40015679924
OCLC
  • ocn174501833
  • 174501833
  • SCSB-5421273
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Columbia University Libraries