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Red Flags and Lace Coiffes : Identity and Survival in a Breton Village / Charles R. Menzies.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442605138
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944/.11084 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. A LOCAL POLITICS OF SURVIVAL -- Introduction -- 1 SOCIAL STRUGGLE AT “LA FIN DE SIÈCLE” -- 2 SYMBOLS OF STRUGGLE: RED FLAGS, LACE COIFFES, AND SOCIAL CLASS -- PART TWO. THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE EVERYDAY -- Introduction -- 3 EPISODE, NOT EPOCH: BUILDING CAPITALISM IN THE HINTERLAND -- 4 WORKING AT SEA -- 5 WORKING ASHORE -- 6 THE DIFFERENCE A FAMILY MAKES -- CONCLUSION -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary: This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented themselves, Menzies argues that local identity plays an important role in their perseverance as global capitalist pressures continually force them to reorganize or disappear entirely. Touching on many concepts that are fundamental to anthropology—culture, identity, kinship, work, political economy, and globalization—and filled with personal stories and warmth, this ethnography will be a welcome teaching tool for instructors and an enticing read for students.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. A LOCAL POLITICS OF SURVIVAL -- Introduction -- 1 SOCIAL STRUGGLE AT “LA FIN DE SIÈCLE” -- 2 SYMBOLS OF STRUGGLE: RED FLAGS, LACE COIFFES, AND SOCIAL CLASS -- PART TWO. THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE EVERYDAY -- Introduction -- 3 EPISODE, NOT EPOCH: BUILDING CAPITALISM IN THE HINTERLAND -- 4 WORKING AT SEA -- 5 WORKING ASHORE -- 6 THE DIFFERENCE A FAMILY MAKES -- CONCLUSION -- Glossary -- References -- Index

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This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented themselves, Menzies argues that local identity plays an important role in their perseverance as global capitalist pressures continually force them to reorganize or disappear entirely. Touching on many concepts that are fundamental to anthropology—culture, identity, kinship, work, political economy, and globalization—and filled with personal stories and warmth, this ethnography will be a welcome teaching tool for instructors and an enticing read for students.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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