The Hard People - Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley (Hardcover)

This volume looks at a central sociological problem - the reconciliation of individual self-interest and social solidarity -through the eyes of villagers in the east Italian Alps. It shows how local conceptions of envy, personal strength, mutual sympathy, and self-sacrifice interact with ideas about language and communications, properties, kinship, and natural forces. Village ritual evokes these conceptions to represent a social system based on age-group solidarity and exchange between the generations, and to link village unity with images of church and state power. Heady draws on both participants observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes and the way local people have responded to them. His findings relate to such themes of recent history as nationalism, regionalism, and anti-clericalism; and contribute to the theoretical debate on the relevance of structuralist anthropology to European societies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Anthropology and History
Release date:	April 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Patrick Heady
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-90-5702-341-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities
LSN:	90-5702-341-5
Barcode:	9789057023415

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