The Bachelors' Ball

The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn

Pierre Bourdieu author Richard Nice translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:23rd May '08

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Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Béarn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's ethnographic account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of Bearn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.

"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."
Steven Poole's non-fiction choice in The Guardian

ISBN: 9780745630953

Dimensions: 250mm x 100mm x 15mm

Weight: 340g

208 pages