Alternative countrysides : Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today / / edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, [2015] ©[2015] |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (172 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- 1. Alternative countrysides: anthropology and rural West Europe today
- 2. A ‘private place’? Changing meanings of the countryside in northern Italy
- 3. Environmental attitudes, community development, and local politics in Ireland
- 4. Ethnic identity, power, compromise, and territory: ‘locals’ and ‘Moroccans’ in the Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux vineyards
- 5. The new rural residents: emerging sociabilities in Alava, Basque Country
- 6. Farms, flats, and villas: senses of country living in a Basque-speaking village
- 7. The recuperation of Galician pottery: craft professions, cultural policies, and identity
- 8. Fear and loving in the west of Ireland: the blows of County Clare
- Index.