Many urban-based anthropologists who study rural communities are
also searching for "political" alternatives to a society they
conceive as alienating, bureaucratic, unjust and exploitative. Such
a search for other life-styles in order to learn something that
could change one's own society bears the risk of idealization of
the "other". The native anthropologist is subject to a different
phenomenon of idealization, especially when his culture is
threatened by powerful forces emanating from an alien centre. Such
an idealization is evident in the ethnographic studies of rural
Welsh communities by the Welsh geographers of the Aberystwyth
school. Their analyses were heavily coloured by the dominant theme
of the nationalist discourse, in which they played an important
role. This book places their ethnographies, and the studies of
Welsh communities by English social anthropologists, in the context
of the theoretical development of an "anthropology at home" in
Britain. It examines how new approaches to the study of local
distinctiveness and its symbolic expressions could change
perceptions of local cultures in Wales.
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