A Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-57181-887-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular aspect of that rural economy: the social organization and cultural construction of work in a community of family farms. The concept of work, which is primarily farm work, is taken here as a very elementary set of ideas, images and experiences that enable us to penetrate in the different cultural spheres that intersect life on an Irish family farm. Work, the author concludes, is to this farming community what the Kula ring is to the Trobriand islanders - a kind of Maussian "total social fact" the analysis of which incorporates a comprehensive description of a particular social system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salazar, Carles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Alan Macfarlane

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Memories from the West

Chapter 2. Languages and Practices

Chapter 3. An Enquiry into the Economy

Chapter 4. Tamed Commodities

Chapter 5. The Moral Boundaries of Farm Work

Chapter 6. Workers and Machines

Chapter 7. The Community Through Monetary Exchanges

Chapter 8. Tönnies in the West of Ireland

Chapter 9. The Intricacies of the Gift

Chapter 10. Family and Gender

Chapter 11. Maximising Kinship Relations

Chapter 12. The Social Life of Space

Chapter 13. Individualism, Morality, and Sentiment

Chapter 14. Work As Metaphor: The Abrogation of the Economy

Concluding Remarks

Images and Imagination – A Photographic Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Salazar, Carles
Carles Salazar is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He gained his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His main research has been focused on different aspects of Irish society and culture: rural economy, religious beliefs, family organization and history of sexual morality. He has also done research on the history of anthropology and on the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics among infertile couples in Barcelona. His latest publications include  Anthropology and Sexual Morality (Berghahn Books, 2006).

Carles Salazar is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He gained his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His main research has been focused on different aspects of Irish society and culture: rural economy, religious beliefs, family organization and history of sexual morality. He has also done research on the history of anthropology and on the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics among infertile couples in Barcelona. His latest publications include  Anthropology and Sexual Morality (Berghahn Books, 2006).