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Anthropology and history in Franche-Comté : a critique of social theory
- Title
- Anthropology and history in Franche-Comté : a critique of social theory / Robert Layton.
- Author
- Layton, Robert, 1944-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DC611.F8146 L39 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This is a study of continuity and change in rural France based on fieldwork carried out over a period of 25 years, and on historical documents spanning more than 300 years. Producer co-operatives have existed in Franche-Comte since the thirteenth century. Communities there, unlike modern English villages, are highly corporate. Robert Layton explores the relationships between inheritance rules, management of common land, household labour, and inter-household relations, as well as the impact on villages of national politics and economy. Comparison with other regions of Western Europe enables a reinterpretation of the eighteenth-century enclosures in England. Layton presents a dialogue between ethnography and social theory, and argues for a revision of the theories of Marx, Giddens, and Bourdieu so as better to explain the mechanisms of continuity, change, and adaptation in social life."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.
- Subject
- Ethnology > France > Franche-Comté
- Ethnology
- Manners and customs
- Anthropologie
- Ethnologie
- Geschichte
- Gesellschaft
- Soziologie
- Wirtschaft
- Franche-Comté (France) > Social life and customs
- Franche-Comté (France) > History
- France > Franche-Comté
- Franche-Comté
- Franche-Comté (France) > Moeurs et coutumes
- Franche-Comté (France) > Histoire
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [366-381) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Everyday Life in 1969 -- 2. Structure and Process in the Corporate Village -- 3. The Household: Inheritance and Structuration -- 4. Habitus and the Quality of Community Life -- 5. Memes and Machines -- 6. The Recursive Effects of Mechanization -- 7. Structure and Agency in the Evolution of Co-operation.
- ISBN
- 0199241996
- 9780199241996
- LCCN
- 00066928
- OCLC
- ocm45419034
- 45419034
- SCSB-1208973
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library