This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book's innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages--the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret--only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.
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"A most impressive work, a weighty contribution to the study of peasant life and an ingenious and entirely convincing blend of ecology and history, of the small-scale and the large." -- F. G. Bailey, Contemporary Sociology
"The fascination of the book lies in the manifest differences between two communities which have shared the same environmental preconditions. Although the physical obstacles to agricultural productivity and population pressures have been very similar for both villages, family structure, work organization, and political practices have differed substantially." -- Jrg K. Siegenthaler, Journal of Modern History
"Two very distinctive 'types of nation formation' emerge from the comparison. . . . There is a great deal in The Hidden Frontier that will be of interest to political scientists, economic and social historians, and anthropologists." -- Benjamin R. Barber, Reviews in European History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"The fascination of the book lies in the manifest differences between two communities which have shared the same environmental preconditions. Although the physical obstacles to agricultural productivity and population pressures have been very similar for both villages, family structure, work organization, and political practices have differed substantially." -- Jrg K. Siegenthaler, Journal of Modern History
"Two very distinctive 'types of nation formation' emerge from the comparison. . . . There is a great deal in The Hidden Frontier that will be of interest to political scientists, economic and social historians, and anthropologists." -- Benjamin R. Barber, Reviews in European History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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John W. Cole is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, President of the Northeastern Anthropology Association, and author or editor of four books in addition to The Hidden Frontier. Eric R. Wolf's many books include the influential Europe and the People Without History (California, 1982) and Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (California, 1998).
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Understand the culture of the South Tyrol,
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This is an academic treatise from a few decades ago. Let that be said right off the bat. It was recommended to me while I was in the South Tyrol (at the regional museum in the village of Dorf Tirol in 1988) when it was an obscure book available to me only in the reference section of the Free Library of Philadelphia (I could only read it in the reading room). Now I own my own copy, and having read it, I understand a lot more about the nature of the South Tyroleans as a part of Italy (which neither they nor the rest of Italy really want to acknowledge). So, on return visits (several), I have been better able to understand why the villages just south of the old Austrian border look and act differently than those to the north. If you have been, or are going, to the Sud-Tirol (Italian: Alto Adige) and really want to understand it, this book will help you. If you want a tour guide, look elsewhere.
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In this book we deal with two small villages located on the high alpine rim of northern Italy-two microcosms caught up in the play of forces larger and more powerful than themselves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natal holding, fringe relationship, surviving past age, inheritance ideology, secondary heirs, fringe population, mountain agriculture, village meadows, unmarried siblings, sibling set, peasant republic, inheritance process, communal council, public outcomes, village holding, principal heir, mixed agriculture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Unser Frau, Upper Anaunia, South Tyrolese, World War, Counts of Tyrol, Middle Ages, Alto Adige, German-speaking Tyrolese, Gampen Pass, Andreas Hofer, United States, Kingdom of Italy, National Socialism, Etsch River, German Reich, Austrian Empire, National Socialists, Tiroler Etschland, Brenner Pass, German Tyrolese, Michael Gaismair, Romance-speaking Tret, Total Disinherited, Counts of Eppan, Greater Germany New!
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In this book we deal with two small villages located on the high alpine rim of northern Italy-two microcosms caught up in the play of forces larger and more powerful than themselves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natal holding, fringe relationship, surviving past age, inheritance ideology, secondary heirs, fringe population, mountain agriculture, village meadows, unmarried siblings, sibling set, peasant republic, inheritance process, communal council, public outcomes, village holding, principal heir, mixed agriculture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Unser Frau, Upper Anaunia, South Tyrolese, World War, Counts of Tyrol, Middle Ages, Alto Adige, German-speaking Tyrolese, Gampen Pass, Andreas Hofer, United States, Kingdom of Italy, National Socialism, Etsch River, German Reich, Austrian Empire, National Socialists, Tiroler Etschland, Brenner Pass, German Tyrolese, Michael Gaismair, Romance-speaking Tret, Total Disinherited, Counts of Eppan, Greater Germany New!
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