Modernity and the unmaking of men / Violeta Schubert.
"Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2020.
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| Series: | New anthropologies of Europe (Berghahn Books) ;
v. 1. |
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| Summary: | "Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, aging bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualizations of performativity and social presence"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 222 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789208637 9781789208634 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2020) |