The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village : : (Published in cloth as Santa Maria del Monte) /

The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village : : (Published in cloth as Santa Maria del Monte) / / Ruth Behar.

This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarÁa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the villagers, in turn, to weather demographic, politica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Behar, Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1226
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Physical Description:1 online resource (466 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One.
  • 1. A Portrait of a Landscape and of a People
  • Part Two
  • 2. The Village House
  • 3. An Archaeology of the House
  • 4. The Idiom of Equal Inheritance
  • 5. Parents and Children
  • 6. Setting Up House
  • Par Three
  • 7. The Concejo as an Assembly
  • 8. The Concejo as a Polity
  • 9. The Concejo as a Moral Presence
  • Part Four
  • 10. The Web of Use-Rights
  • 11. The Common Herds
  • 12. The Common Lands
  • 13. The Common Woods
  • 14. The State and the Commons
  • Part Five
  • 15. The Presence of the Past
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Two Life Histories from Santa Maria
  • Appendix B. Population and Economy
  • Appendix C. Distribution of Responses to the Ateneo Questionnaire of 1901-1902 in the Province of Leon
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Weighs, Measures, and Monetary Units
  • Glossary
  • Principal Archival Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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