The Life of Property: House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France (Methodology & History in Anthropology, Band 21)

Jenkins, Timothy

 
9781845456672: The Life of Property: House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France (Methodology & History in Anthropology, Band 21)
ISBN 10: 184545667X ISBN 13: 9781845456672
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2010

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In Béarn, a region of south-west France, longstanding and resilient ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and intellectual history, this study explores the long-term continuities of this particular way of life within a broad framework. These local ideas have found expression twice at the national level. First, sociological arguments about the family, proposed by Frédéric Le Play, shaped debates on social reform and the repair of national identity during the last third of the nineteenth century - and these debates would subsequently influence contemporary European thought and social policy. Second, these local ideas entered into late twentieth-century sociological categories through the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu. Through these examples and others, the author illustrates the multi-layered life of these local concepts and practices and the continuing contribution of the local to modern European national history.

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Timothy Jenkins was trained in anthropology at the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. In 1992, he was appointed a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and in 2001, became an Assistant Director of Research (ADR) at the University of Cambridge; he currently holds these two posts. His interests are in European, particularly British and French, ethnography, as well as anthropological theory and the history of ideas. Among his publications is Religion in English Everyday Life: an Ethnographic Approach (Berghahn Books, 1999).

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184545667X
ISBN 13 
9781845456672
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Auflage
1
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194
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