Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular aspect of that rural economy: the social organization and cultural construction of work in a community of family farms. The concept of work, which is primarily farm work, is taken here as a very elementary set of ideas, images and experiences that enable us to penetrate in the different cultural spheres that intersect life on an Irish family farm. Work, the author concludes, is to this farming community what the Kula ring is to the Trobriand islanders - a kind of Maussian "total social fact" the analysis of which incorporates a comprehensive description of a particular social system.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1996-08-15
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in Anthropology
Antal sidor192
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571818874

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Carles Salazar is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He gained his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His main research has been focused on different aspects of Irish society and culture: rural economy, religious beliefs, family organization and history of sexual morality. He has also done research on the history of anthropology and on the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics among infertile couples in Barcelona. His latest publications include Anthropology and Sexual Morality (Berghahn Books, 2006).

PrefaceAlan MacfarlaneAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Memories from the WestChapter 2. Languages and PracticesChapter 3. An Enquiry into the EconomyChapter 4. Tamed CommoditiesChapter 5. The Moral Boundaries of Farm WorkChapter 6. Workers and MachinesChapter 7. The Community Through Monetary ExchangesChapter 8. Tönnies in the West of IrelandChapter 9. The Intricacies of the GiftChapter 10. Family and GenderChapter 11. Maximising Kinship RelationsChapter 12. The Social Life of SpaceChapter 13. Individualism, Morality, and SentimentChapter 14. Work As Metaphor: The Abrogation of the EconomyConcluding RemarksImages and Imagination – A Photographic AppendixBibliographyIndex