Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity and Survival in a Breton Village - Couverture souple

Menzies, Charles R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144260512X ISBN 13 : 9781442605121

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles R. Menzies is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Ethnographic Film Unit. He is director of an accompanying film about the Breton fishery, Face a la Tempete--Weather the Storm (Bullfrog Films, 2008) and editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management (University of Nebraska Press, 2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144260512X
• ISBN 13: 9781442605121
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible