| Description |
xii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
New directions in anthropology ; v. 2 |
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New directions in anthropology ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Preface / Alan Marcfarlane -- 1. Memories from the West -- 2. Languages and Practices -- 3. An Enquiry into the Economy -- 4. Tamed Commodities -- 5. The Moral Boundaries of Farm Work -- 6. Workers and Machines -- 7. The Community Through Monetary Exchanges -- 8. Tonnies in the West of Ireland -- 9. The Intricacies of the Gift -- 10. Family and Gender -- 11. Maximising Kinship Relations -- 12. The Social Life of Space -- 13. Individualism, Morality, and Sentiment -- 14. Work As Metaphor: The Abrogation of the Economy -- Images and Imagination -- A Photographic Appendix |
| Analysis |
Ireland |
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Rural communities Social conditions |
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Ireland |
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Rural communities Social conditions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-175) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 1949-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067986
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Ireland -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115514
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| LC no. |
96033871 |
| ISBN |
1571818871 (acid-free paper) |
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