Shaping Modern Times in Rural France
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Shaping Modern Times in Rural France

The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community

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Shaping Modern Times in Rural France

The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community

About this book

Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of "Ste Foy" during a period of rapid change (1945-75). Using ethnographic field data and archival material that she collected as a "participant-observer," she finds an intriguing puzzle: an allegedly archaic social form, the ostal, has become increasingly common in the community. The ostal, a type of family farm organized around an extended "stem family" household, is a variant of the stem family systems associated with preindustrial southern Europe. How have Ste Foyans continued to remake this "archaic" mode as their community grew more prosperous and more involved in national and international markets? In showing how the specific identity of a community is reproduced rather than obliterated by modernization, the author reveals dialectical relationships between structure and change, history and culture, and the centralized nation-state and regional diversity. This analysis addresses anthropologists, historians, and scholars interested in local politics and economic development.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Prologue: Snapshots from a Moving Picture
  11. Chapter One: Introduction
  12. Chapter Two: Variations on a Theme: Cultural Specificities and Economic Change in Ste Foy, Aveyron
  13. Chapter Three: Ste Foy's Soul: The Principles of the Ostal System
  14. Chapter Four: Ties That Cut and Bind: Ostals in the Community
  15. Chapter Five: Real Ostals in a Changing World
  16. Chapter Six: New Crises: structures and Change in Me Foy
  17. Chapter Seven: Conclusions
  18. Appendix 1: Estimations of Ostal Domestic Life Cycles
  19. Appendix 2: Succession of Households on a Ste Foyan Hamlet
  20. Bibliography—Aveyron
  21. Index