The Bachelors' Ball

副标题: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn

ISBN: 9780226067506

出版社: University Of Chicago Press

出版年: 2008-08-15

页数: 216

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, "The Bachelors' Ball", sees him return to Bearn, the village where he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's ethnographic account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of Bearn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.