Upland communities : environment, population and social structure in the Alps since the sixteenth century
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Upland communities : environment, population and social structure in the Alps since the sixteenth century
(Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time, 8)
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Available at 42 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 297-317
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental factors in shaping family forms and community structures. Although its foundation lies in a long period of anthropological fieldwork conducted in an Alpine community, Upland Communities relies on the methods and conceptual tools of historical demography. Combined with a long-term historical perspective, its broad comparative approach unveils an unexpected diversity in regional and spatial demographic patterns and questions a number of deep-rooted but ultimately misleading notions concerning mountain society and its alleged backwardness in the past.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: anthropology, historical demography and the study of mountain societies
- 1. Environment, population and social structure: the Alpine village as an ecosystem
- 2. Open systems, open questions
- 3. Anthropologists in the Alps
- 4. The changing demography of Alpine communities
- 5. The traditional economy and its demise
- 6. The causes and consequences of Alpine emigration
- 7. The wealth from the earth: mining and immigration
- 8. Population, resources and homeostatic regulation
- 9. The domestic domain
- 10. Upland communities
- A summary of conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index.
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