In Bearn, a region of south-west France, longstanding and resilient
ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the
destinies of those living in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Based
on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines
ethnography and intellectual history, this study explores the
long-term continuities of this particular way of life within a
broad framework. These local ideas have found expression twice at
the national level. First, sociological arguments about the family,
proposed by Frederic Le Play, shaped debates on social reform and
the repair of national identity during the last third of the
nineteenth century - and these debates would subsequently influence
contemporary European thought and social policy. Second, these
local ideas entered into late twentieth-century sociological
categories through the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu. Through
these examples and others, the author illustrates the multi-layered
life of these local concepts and practices and the continuing
contribution of the local to modern European national history.
Timothy Jenkins was trained in anthropology at the Oxford
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. In 1992, he was
appointed a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and in 2001, became
an Assistant Director of Research (ADR) at the University of
Cambridge; he currently holds these two posts. His interests are in
European, particularly British and French, ethnography, as well as
anthropological theory and the history of ideas. Among his
publications is Religion in English Everyday Life: an Ethnographic
Approach (Berghahn Books, 1999)."
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