Red flags and lace coiffes : identity and survival in a Breton fishing village /

Red flags and lace coiffes : identity and survival in a Breton fishing village /

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Author / Creator:Menzies, Charles R.
Imprint:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Description:xiv, 155 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Teaching culture: UTP ethnographies for the classroom
Teaching culture.
Subject:
Fishing villages -- France -- Bigouden.
Fishing villages -- Economic aspects -- France -- Bigouden.
Fishing villages -- Social aspects -- France -- Bigouden.
Fishers -- Social life and customs -- France -- Bigouden.
Bretons -- France -- Bigouden -- Social life and customs.
Fishers -- Social life and customs.
Fishing villages.
Manners and customs.
Bigouden (France) -- Social life and customs.
France -- Bigouden.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8513891
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ISBN:9781442605121
144260512X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite a range of difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes is an ... ethnography that explores how and why family-based fishing enterprises continue in the face of what seem to be overwhelming odds. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how the fishers and their families of the Bigouden region in France have situated themselves over time, Charles R. Menzies argues that local identity plays an important role as global capitalist pressures force these fishing communities to reorganize or disappear entirely. Throughout, the book touches on key concepts such as identity, culture, globalization, kinship, work, the environment, and the economy."--Publisher's description.

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