At Home in the Hills
Autor John N. Grayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780857451798
ISBN-10: 0857451790
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
ISBN-10: 0857451790
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
Notă biografică
John Gray is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has carried out long term ethnographic research in both the Scottish Border as well as in Nepal about which he has published two books: Domestic Mandala: Architecture of Lifeworlds in Nepal (Ashgate) and The Householder's World: Purity, Power and Dominance in a Nepali Village (Oxford).
Cuprins
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Place-Making and Family Farms in the Scottish Borders Chapter 1. Reivers of the Marches: The Borders as Frontier Chapter 2. Tenants on Landed Estates: Capitalist Agriculture in the Middle Shires Chapter 3. Sheep Farming in the Community: The Borders as Rural Chapter 4. Forms of Tenure: Establishing Relations between Farm and Family Chapter 5. Sheep and Land: A Political Economy of Space Chapter 6. Hill Sheep and Tups: Emplacement through Farm Work Chapter 7. Lamb Auctions: Spectacles of Hill Sheep Farming Chapter 8. Ram Auctions: Tups of Value, Men of Renown Chapter 9. The Big House: Farmers and Shepherds Chapter 10. The Farmhouse: Keeping the Farm in the Family Afterword References Index
Recenzii
"... a fascinating history of the Borders as space defined through exercises of power ... The absorbing history of space provides the setting for a fine-grained ethnograpy of place ... It also has the great virtue of being most readable." * The Australian Journal of Anthropology