The bachelors' ball
Subtitle: the crisis of peasant society in Béarn
By: Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780226067490; 9780226067506
Subjects: Single people -- France -- Béarn; Marriage -- France -- Béarn; Sociology, Rural -- France -- Béarn; Béarn (France) -- Rural conditions
Work titles: Bal des célibataires
Notes: Articles previously published in 1962, 1972, and 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bachelorhood and the peasant condition; title: The system of matrimonial exchanges in traditional peasant society; title: Internal contradictions and anomy; title: The opposition between the bourg and the hameaux; title: The peasant and his body; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliographical notes; title: Changes in population, 1836-1954; title: Dialogue between a villager and a peasant; title: Another dialogue between a villager and a bachelor; title: The exemplary tale of a younger son from a modest family; title: Excessive maternal authority and bachelorhood; title: An attempt to generalize : bachelorhood in 16 rural cantons in Brittany.