Red Flags and Lace Coiffes : : Identity and Survival in a Breton Village / / Charles R. Menzies.
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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| Summary: | This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented themselves, Menzies argues that local identity plays an important role in their perseverance as global capitalist pressures continually force them to reorganize or disappear entirely. Touching on many concepts that are fundamental to anthropology—culture, identity, kinship, work, political economy, and globalization—and filled with personal stories and warmth, this ethnography will be a welcome teaching tool for instructors and an enticing read for students. |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781442605138 9783110490954 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/9781442605138 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Charles R. Menzies. |