The bachelors' ball : the crisis of peasant society in Bearn / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice
Imprint
Cambridge : Polity, 2008
Descript
vi, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Part one. Bachelorhood and the peasant condition ; The system of matrimonial exchanges in traditional peasant society ; Internal contradictions and anomy ; The opposition between the bourg and the hameaux -- The peasant and his body -- Part two. Matrimonial strategies in the system of reproduction strategies -- Part three. Reproduction forbidden: the symbolic dimension of economic domination ; Addenda and corrigenda ; 'from the closed world to the infinite universe' ; The unification of the matrimonial market ; 'Sound opinions of the people'