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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn

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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn - Bourdieu, Pierre, Professor, and Nice, Richard (Translated by)
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Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to B???arn, 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 ...

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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn 2008, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226067506

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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn 2008, Polity Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780745630953

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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn 2008, Polity Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780745630946

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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn 2008, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226067490

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