The Bachelors' Ball

The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn

By: Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice (Translator)

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Paperback | 23 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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The enforced bachelorhood of eldest sons in traditional French rural society was a subject to which Pierre Bourdieu devoted three major articles, written at widely spaced moments in his career as a sociologist and ethnographer. He brings them together in this book, with an introduction in which he presents them as stages in 'a kind of intellectual Bildungsroman' through which one can follow the development of his theory of practice.
This book gives the reader sociological and anthropological insight into the interaction of occupation, social class and marriage and how these factors affect smaller communities, and provides a penetrating analysis of the disintegration of rural communities and the nature of social change.

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"Absolutely fundamental to any understanding of the development of Bourdieu's thought ... as insightful as it is moving."
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Plunges us into fascinating details of the economics of dowries and animal husbandry."
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