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The life of property : house, family and inheritance in Bearn, south-west France / Timothy Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Timothy, 1952-
- Series:
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 21.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnohistory--France--Bearn.
- Ethnohistory.
- Kinship--France--Bearn--History.
- Kinship.
- Families--France--Bearn--History.
- Families.
- Property--France--Bearn--History.
- Property.
- Inheritance and succession--France--Bearn--History.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Béarn (France)--History.
- Béarn (France).
- Béarn (France)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Other Title:
- House, family and inheritance in Béarn, south-west France
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- The Life of Property; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Discovery of the Pyrenean Family; Chapter 2: Continuity Over Time; 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; Chapter 6: Bourdieu's Béarnais Ethnography; Chapter 7: The Life of Property; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627248
- 9781282627246
- 1282627244
- 9781845458232
- 1845458230
- OCLC:
- 781326741
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