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The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn

By Pierre Bourdieu

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780226067506, 0226067505, 9780226067490, 0226067491
LCC
HQ800.4.F82 B68413 2008
Open Library ID
OL10191605M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18198021 bytes)
Pages
213\213
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and Lévi-Strauss—a public intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his. Bourdieu’s final book, The Bachelors’ Ball, sees him return to Béarn, the region 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 Béarn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.

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