Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne, Dr. Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system. She shows how parents subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, and describes the ways in which a sense of local difference is sustained and valued, even in the official educational discourse. A significant contribution to the anthropology of education, this book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation. Dr. Reed-Danahay also provides lucid and critical discussions of sociological theories on education, including those of Bourdieu.
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"This socio-political-economic study adds a significant dimension in the field of rural France scholarship..." Choice
"...I found Education and Identity in Rural France very compelling reading, and I recommend it." Alan DeYoung, Anthropology & Education Quarterly
"It will be of considerable interest to all those interested in the school, as well as to those specifically interested in how local and national cultures interact within the French institutional framework. Danahay convincingly demonstrates the way that national institutions and ideologies are shaped by local cultures just as much as the other way around." Alexandra Jaffe, Anthropological Quarterly
"A fascinating ethnographic account.... Reed-Danahay provides rich materials for those interested in the sociology of education; in the relationship between the state, teachers, parents, and children; and in the endurance and dynamism of rural communities well into the twentieth century." Contemporary Sociology
"Reed-Danahay presents a first-rate description of the local kinship system, domestic organization and socialization practices." David S. Moyer, Anthropologica
"...I found Education and Identity in Rural France very compelling reading, and I recommend it." Alan DeYoung, Anthropology & Education Quarterly
"It will be of considerable interest to all those interested in the school, as well as to those specifically interested in how local and national cultures interact within the French institutional framework. Danahay convincingly demonstrates the way that national institutions and ideologies are shaped by local cultures just as much as the other way around." Alexandra Jaffe, Anthropological Quarterly
"A fascinating ethnographic account.... Reed-Danahay provides rich materials for those interested in the sociology of education; in the relationship between the state, teachers, parents, and children; and in the endurance and dynamism of rural communities well into the twentieth century." Contemporary Sociology
"Reed-Danahay presents a first-rate description of the local kinship system, domestic organization and socialization practices." David S. Moyer, Anthropologica
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In an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auverne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the French school system. She demonstrates how parents subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, describing the ways in which a sense of local difference is sustained, even in the official educational discourse. A significant contribution to the anthropology of eduction, the book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation.
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Deborah Reed-Danahay lives in Buffalo, NY and is a Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
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Before moving to Lavialle, the French farming community that would be my fieldwork site, I spent one month in an international student residence in Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elected parent committee, hamlet residence, parental reprisals, hamlet school, northern hamlets, classroom resistance, local cultural meanings, neighboring communes, communal festival, communal archives, southern hamlets, local social life, school aide, socialization strategies, town council members, local cultural identity, primary school class, family strategies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Youth Club, World War, Henri Juillard, Liliane Juillard, Monsieur Brun, Madame Plante, Third Republic, Monsieur Plante, Eugen Weber, Massif Central New!
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Before moving to Lavialle, the French farming community that would be my fieldwork site, I spent one month in an international student residence in Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elected parent committee, hamlet residence, parental reprisals, hamlet school, northern hamlets, classroom resistance, local cultural meanings, neighboring communes, communal festival, communal archives, southern hamlets, local social life, school aide, socialization strategies, town council members, local cultural identity, primary school class, family strategies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Youth Club, World War, Henri Juillard, Liliane Juillard, Monsieur Brun, Madame Plante, Third Republic, Monsieur Plante, Eugen Weber, Massif Central New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Quiet Days in Burgundy: A Study of Local Politics (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Marc Abélès in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by Forrest D. Colburn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Muslim Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Ernest Gellner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women, Work and Family by Louise A. Tilly in Back Matter
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- Locating Bourdieu (New Anthropologies of Europe) by Deborah Reed-Danahay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Andrew Beatty in Back Matter
- The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time by John Merriman in Back Matter
- Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Fenella Cannell in Back Matter
- Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by David Lipset in Back Matter
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