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The Bachelors Ball. The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn.
Pierre Bourdieu
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Paperback. This book gives the reader sociological and anthropological insight into the interaction of occupation, social class and marriage and how these factors effect and affect smaller communities and provides a customarily deft analysis of the disintegration of rural communities and the nature of social change. Translator(s): Nice, Richard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Béarn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's ethnographic account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of Bearn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.
Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Béarn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's ethnographic account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of Bearn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745630953
SKU
V9780745630953
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About Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was Formerly Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Reviews for The Bachelors Ball. The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn.
"Absolutely fundamental to any understanding of the development of Bourdieu's thought ... as insightful as it is moving." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "Plunges us into fascinating details of the economics of dowries and animal husbandry." Steven Poole's non-fiction choice in The Guardian