Rise and Fall of Community Studies

Robert Parkin taught anthropology at Oxford from 2002 to 2017, when he retired. He previously taught at the University of Kent and the Free University of Berlin. His main research interests are the tribal populations of India, kinship, the history of French anthropology and politics and identity along the German-Polish border.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Southwest Europe I: Introduction, Kinship, Community and GenderChapter 2. Southern Europe II: Economics and PoliticsChapter 3. Southern Europe II: Economics and PoliticsChapter 4. Some Community Studies in Southern Europe, II: IberiaChapter 5. The British IslesChapter 6. Other Northern Europe: Germany, France, Scandinavia, BelgiumChapter 7. Eastern Europe I: The Socialist Period and BeforeChapter 8. Eastern Europe II: The Post-Socialist TransitionChapter 9. Week 10: European Union and RegionalismChapter 10. ReligionChapter 11. Identity Formation in EuropeConclusionReferencesIndex

“This is a high-level piece of scholarship ... an ideal book for European anthropology courses. • Zdzisław Mach, Jagiellonian University