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Accounting
Activism
Agrarian reform
Agriculture
Ambiguity
Author_Douglas R. Holmes
Awareness
Benandanti
Calculation
Cambridge University Press
Capitalism
Carlo Ginzburg
Category=JBSA
Clergy
Communism
Contract
Debt
Disenchantment
Employment
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Eviction
Farmhouse
Feudalism
Folk religion
Friuli
Gratuity
Hectare
Household
Identity politics
Ideology
Income
Industrialisation
Institution
Interdependence
Laborer
Land tenure
Lease
Lessor (leasing)
Livelihood
Livestock
Modernity
Morality
Necessity
Obligation
Ownership
Payment
Peasant
Political agenda
Politician
Politics
Precedent
Provision (accounting)
Provision (contracting)
Rationality
Rationalization (sociology)
Rural ghetto
Sensibility
Sharecropping
Shortage
Social relation
Society
Sociology
Southern Italy
Suggestion
Supply (economics)
The Various
Trade union
Uncertainty
Unemployment
Welfare state
Working class
World War I
Year
Product details
- ISBN 9780691028491
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 1989
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. Examining the region of Friuli in northeast Italy, it shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. Holmes draws on the Weberian notion of the "disenchantment of the world" to examine the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life. What emerges is a vivid picture of the economic, political, religious, and ethnic struggles that infuse the peasant-worker milieu, as traditional representations of reality are pitted against bureaucratic definitions and formulas emanating from Church, state, and market institutions. In addition to providing a general theoretical framework for the analysis of peasant-worker society and culture, Cultural Disenchantments is the first anthropological study of Friuli to be published in English.
As such, it elaborates on the historical insights developed by Carlo Ginzburg in his famous study of sixteenthcentury agrarian cults and folk traditions in Friuli.
