On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular aspect of that rural economy: the social organization and cultural construction of work in a community of family farms. The concept of work, which is primarily farm work, is taken here as a very elementary set of ideas, images and experiences that enable us to penetrate in the different cultural spheres that intersect life on an Irish family…mehr
On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular aspect of that rural economy: the social organization and cultural construction of work in a community of family farms. The concept of work, which is primarily farm work, is taken here as a very elementary set of ideas, images and experiences that enable us to penetrate in the different cultural spheres that intersect life on an Irish family farm. Work, the author concludes, is to this farming community what the Kula ring is to the Trobriand islanders - a kind of Maussian "total social fact" the analysis of which incorporates a comprehensive description of a particular social system.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Carles Salazar is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He gained his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His main research has been focused on different aspects of Irish society and culture: rural economy, religious beliefs, family organization and history of sexual morality. He has also done research on the history of anthropology and on the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics among infertile couples in Barcelona. His latest publications include Anthropology and Sexual Morality (Berghahn Books, 2006).
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Preface Alan Macfarlane Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Memories from the West Chapter 2. Languages and Practices Chapter 3. An Enquiry into the Economy Chapter 4. Tamed Commodities Chapter 5. The Moral Boundaries of Farm Work Chapter 6. Workers and Machines Chapter 7. The Community Through Monetary Exchanges Chapter 8. Tönnies in the West of Ireland Chapter 9. The Intricacies of the Gift Chapter 10. Family and Gender Chapter 11. Maximising Kinship Relations Chapter 12. The Social Life of Space Chapter 13. Individualism, Morality, and Sentiment Chapter 14. Work As Metaphor: The Abrogation of the Economy Concluding Remarks Images and Imagination - A Photographic Appendix Bibliography Index
Preface Alan Macfarlane Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Memories from the West Chapter 2. Languages and Practices Chapter 3. An Enquiry into the Economy Chapter 4. Tamed Commodities Chapter 5. The Moral Boundaries of Farm Work Chapter 6. Workers and Machines Chapter 7. The Community Through Monetary Exchanges Chapter 8. Tönnies in the West of Ireland Chapter 9. The Intricacies of the Gift Chapter 10. Family and Gender Chapter 11. Maximising Kinship Relations Chapter 12. The Social Life of Space Chapter 13. Individualism, Morality, and Sentiment Chapter 14. Work As Metaphor: The Abrogation of the Economy Concluding Remarks Images and Imagination - A Photographic Appendix Bibliography Index
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