Kippel: a changing village in the Alps.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: h
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Kippel (Switzerland)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 128-129.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- The village and its background. Historical setting -- Ecological setting -- The village -- The village and its inhabitants. Demography and citizenship -- Kinship and marriage -- Diet -- Communication -- The church -- Traditional agro-pastoralism. Land use -- Alps -- Ownership -- Inheritance -- Cooperative labor -- Social interaction -- Industrialization after World War II. Occupational change 1945-1960 -- Emergence of the worker-peasant -- Autarky complex -- Summary : social change 1945-1960 -- Modernization since 1960 -- Occupational change 1960-1970 -- Decline of the worker-peasant -- Tourism -- Standard of living -- Marriage -- Summary : social change 1960-1970 -- The future. World view -- The economy in the l970s -- Tourism in the l970s -- References.