Shaping Modern Times in Rural France : : The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community / / Susan Carol Rogers.

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 &quo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1991
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue. Snapshots from a Moving Picture
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Variations on a Theme: Cultural Specificities and Economic Change in Ste Foy, Aveyron
  • 3. Ste Foy's Soul: The Principles of the Ostal System
  • 4. Ties That Cut and Bind: Ostals in the Community
  • 5. Real Ostals in a Changing World
  • 6. New Crises: Structures and Change in Ste Foy
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Appendix I. Estimations of Ostal Domestic Life Cycles
  • Appendix 2. Succession of Households on a Ste Foyan Hamlet
  • Bibliography
  • Index