Title: Anthropology and history in Franche-Comté
First published: 2000
Description: "This is a study of continuity and change in rural France based on fieldwork carried out over a period of 25 years, and on historical documents spanning more than 300 years. Producer co-operatives have existed in Franche-Comte since the thirteenth century. Communities there, unlike modern English villages, are highly corporate.

Robert Layton explores the relationships between inheritance rules, management of common land, household labour, and inter-household relations, as well as the impact on villages of national politics and economy. Comparison with other regions of Western Europe enables a reinterpretation of the eighteenth-century enclosures in England.

Layton presents a dialogue between ethnography and social theory, and argues for a revision of the theories of Marx, Giddens, and Bourdieu so as better to explain the mechanisms of continuity, change, and adaptation in social life."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Ethnology, History, Ethnology, france, France, social life and customs
Places: Franche-Comté (France), Franche-Comté, France
LC classification: DC611.F8146 L39 2000