The Impossible Democracy: Kinship and Politics in a Lorrainese Village. This article, based on field work begun in 1968, examines various aspects of the political life of a Lorrainese village and emphasizes the important role played by kinship in municipal activities. After defining the term "Politics", the author explains and criticizes the three theoretical approaches used by sociologists and ethnologists to study the relations between peasant communities and the states that control them. He goes on to justify his choice of the hypothesis of latent or patent discontinuity as opposed to that of a priori or a posteriori continuity. Before analyzing village political systems in order to define different native models of local power, the aut...
Decision-making in the village - the example of land-regrouping - How are decisions made in a villag...
Decision-making in the village - the example of land-regrouping - How are decisions made in a villag...
The choice of local representatives, opposition systems and local bones of contention in council ele...
International audienceThe article presents the results of a survey on the municipal life in five com...
International audienceThe article presents the results of a survey on the municipal life in five com...
International audienceThe article presents the results of a survey on the municipal life in five com...
Rural mayors of the Région Midi-Pyrénées (France) and their political affiliation.<br />The article ...
Rural mayors of the Région Midi-Pyrénées (France) and their political affiliation.The article descri...
In a still overwhelmingly rural France, universal male suffrage introduced in 1848 made peasants bec...
Rural mayors of the Région Midi-Pyrénées (France) and their political affiliation.The article descri...
The problem of power is confronted from the point of view of the community, rural at its base (villa...
The problem of power is confronted from the point of view of the community, rural at its base (villa...
Undiscoverable Households. Family Organization in a Village of Traditional Corsica. In this articl...
This article presents the questions asked in the session "Entretiens de Mahler" on the economic role...
This article presents the questions asked in the session "Entretiens de Mahler" on the economic role...
Decision-making in the village - the example of land-regrouping - How are decisions made in a villag...
Decision-making in the village - the example of land-regrouping - How are decisions made in a villag...
The choice of local representatives, opposition systems and local bones of contention in council ele...
International audienceThe article presents the results of a survey on the municipal life in five com...
International audienceThe article presents the results of a survey on the municipal life in five com...
International audienceThe article presents the results of a survey on the municipal life in five com...
Rural mayors of the Région Midi-Pyrénées (France) and their political affiliation.<br />The article ...
Rural mayors of the Région Midi-Pyrénées (France) and their political affiliation.The article descri...
In a still overwhelmingly rural France, universal male suffrage introduced in 1848 made peasants bec...
Rural mayors of the Région Midi-Pyrénées (France) and their political affiliation.The article descri...
The problem of power is confronted from the point of view of the community, rural at its base (villa...
The problem of power is confronted from the point of view of the community, rural at its base (villa...
Undiscoverable Households. Family Organization in a Village of Traditional Corsica. In this articl...
This article presents the questions asked in the session "Entretiens de Mahler" on the economic role...
This article presents the questions asked in the session "Entretiens de Mahler" on the economic role...
Decision-making in the village - the example of land-regrouping - How are decisions made in a villag...
Decision-making in the village - the example of land-regrouping - How are decisions made in a villag...
The choice of local representatives, opposition systems and local bones of contention in council ele...