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Gender, Work and Property: An Ethnographic Study of Value in a Spanish Village (Work and Everyday Life. Ethnographic Studies on Work Cultures) - Softcover

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Konvalinka, Nancy

 
9783593396613: Gender, Work and Property: An Ethnographic Study of Value in a Spanish Village (Work and Everyday Life. Ethnographic Studies on Work Cultures)

Synopsis


Why do young men born in many small villages in Spain tend, at the end of the twentieth century, to stay there to live, often remaining unmarried, while young women from the same villages tend to leave? In Gender, Work, and Property, Nancy Konvalinka explores this phenomenon using the case of one small village in northwestern Spain, and she extrapolates her findings there to understand similar processes elsewhere in Europe.

The changes in this village are analyzed and documented through long-term ethnographic research, participant observation, interviews, kinship diagrams, life-course models, and archive study in order to help bring the village alive for the reader.

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About the Author


Nancy Konvalinka is professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid.

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