The Life of Property : : House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France / / Timothy Jenkins.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 THE DISCOVERY OF THE PYRENEAN FAMILY
- Chapter 2 CONTINUITY OVER TIME: PATTERNS OF LAND INHERITANCE
- Chapter 3 THE CONTEMPORARY BÉARNAIS FARMING FAMILY
- Chapter 4 LOCAL POLITICS AND LAND USE
- Chapter 5 MARRIAGE, INHERITANCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN A GASCON NOVEL: SIMIN PALAY’S LOS TRES GOJATS DE BÒRDAVIELHA
- Chapter 6 BOURDIEU’S BÉARNAIS ETHNOGRAPHY
- Chapter 7 THE LIFE OF PROPERTY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX