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Fifteen Generations of Bretons - Kinship and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720-1980 (Paperback)
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Fifteen Generations of Bretons - Kinship and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720-1980 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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The Bigouden region in south-west Brittany may appear to be
extremely 'traditional', but over the centuries it has witnessed
much social and economic change, with the introduction of
commercial fishing and a canning industry in the 1880s and, more
recently, the development of tourism and restructuring of
agriculture. Following a community of Breton peasants over fifteen
generations, Martine Segalen traces the effects of these economic
changes on family life and analyses the strategies of marriage
alliance and inheritance which were used to shore up social
hierarchies. She thus reveals the importance of kinship networks in
social intercourse, both today and in the past. The value of Dr
Segalen's study lies both in the cage material, which is of
interest for what it reveals about the social history of the French
peasantry and peasants in general, and, more particularly, in the
methodology she applies which combines anthropological, historical
and demographic approaches.
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