The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine ValleyUniversity of California Press, 1999 M11 16 - 372 páginas This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book’s innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages—the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret—only a mile apart in the same mountain valley. |
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Contenido
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The Forging of Tyrolese Identity | 25 |
Torments of Nationalism | 50 |
The Economic Development of the Rural Sector | 64 |
History of an Upland Valley | 96 |
Mountain Husbandry | 119 |
The Mountain Estate | 153 |
Inheritance | 175 |
Kith and Kin | 233 |
Cultural Confrontation | 263 |
Population Statistics | 289 |
Interview Sheet | 292 |
Representative Holdings in Tret and St Felix | 293 |
Interethnic Marriages | 315 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 319 |
INDEX | 337 |
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The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley John W. Cole,Eric R. Wolf Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley John W. Cole,Eric R. Wolf Vista de fragmentos - 1974 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adige agriculture alpine altitude Austrian Bozen Brenner brother Caseid cash Castelfondo cattle century communities continued Counts of Tyrol crops cultural daughter domestic group domestic unit ecological economic eldest estate manager ethnic Fascist father favor Felix and Tret fields Fondo forest Frau frazione Gampen Geiser German German speakers German-speaking Habsburg harvest hectares heir holding homestead household ideology income increase inheritance Innsbruck Italian Italy labor land landholders Laurein livestock living Malosco marriage married ment Meran migrated mountain meadows mountainside neighbors Nónes Nonsberg operation organization owner ownership parcels pasture pattern peasant peasantry political population pressures production Proveis province Province of Trento relations remain Romance-speaking rural settlement share sister social South Tyrol structure subsistence Südtirol tion Tirol Trentino Trento Tret and St Trettners Tyrolese Ulten unmarried Upper Anaunia Val di Non Val di Sole valleys village woman women
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Página 285 - As the development of the factory system had been organized as part of a process of buying and selling, therefore labor, land, and money had to be transformed into commodities in order to keep production going. They could, of course, not be really transformed into commodities, as actually they were not produced for sale on the market. But the fiction of their being so produced became the organizing principle of society.
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Página 286 - But while production could theoretically be organized in this way, the commodity fiction disregarded the fact that leaving the fate of soil and people to the market would be tantamount to annihilating them.
Página 169 - The parties confront each other as distinct economic and social interests. The material side of the transaction is at least as critical as the social: there is more or less precise reckoning, as the things given must be covered within some short term. So the pragmatic test of balanced reciprocity becomes an inability to tolerate one-way flows; the relations between people are disrupted by a failure to reciprocate within limited time and equivalence leeways. It is notable of the main run of...
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Página 169 - personal' than generalized reciprocity. From our own vantage-point it is 'more economic.' The parties confront each other as distinct economic and social interests. The material...
Página 176 - He would like to see every daughter well married and every son with land enough to support a family. Then too, he would like to see the holding that he has maintained against the world for a lifetime remain essentially intact to provide a material basis for perpetuation of the family line.
Página 21 - The resulting interplay at the local level influences not only what goes on "on the ground"; it also influences the nature and capacity of the larger system in the "outside" world. The characteristics and capabilities of such a system depend directly upon the successful or unsuccessful outcomes of these local interplays. In this view, neither the local system...