Born and Bred is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. At the heart of the cotton industry in the nineteenth century, this Lancashire town has undergone deep social and economic change during the twentieth, yet it remains a hive of social activity. The book dwells on the way in which the past features large in people's talk about the place and about each other, but it questions the claim that such a preoccupation is simply due to nostalgia for better times. Narratives about the past, like narratives about the kind of place Bacup is, mobilize cultural understandings of kinship, which are also deployed when people talk about the implications of new reproductive technologies. Jeanette Edwards argues that kinship is resonant in the way in which residents of the town belong to pasts, places and persons. She challenges the idea that kinship is no longer an organizing principle in post-industrial Western society.Richly detailed ... [Edwards] carried out the kind of detailed, long-term participant-observation which is becoming all too rare in Western societies
Autor |
Jeanette Edwards |
Verlag |
Oxford Academic |
Einband |
Fester Einband |
Erscheinungsjahr |
2000 |
Seitenangabe |
278 S. |
Lieferstatus |
Lieferbar in ca. 10-20 Arbeitstagen |
Ausgabekennzeichen |
Englisch |
Abbildungen |
18 halftones, 6 figures, 2 maps |
Masse |
H24.3 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.4 cm 549 g |
Coverlag |
OUP Oxford (Imprint/Brand) |
Reihe |
Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
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