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Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France by William G. Pooley, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France by William G. Pooley, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France by William G. Pooley, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France by William G. Pooley, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in one generation into the largest man-made forest in Europe. Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-CenturyFrance explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921). The study places the songs, stories, and everyday speech that Arnaudin collected, as well as the photographs he took, in theeveryday lives of agricultural workers and artisans. It argues that the changes are were understood as a gradual revolution in bodily experiences, as men and women forged new working habits, new sexual relations, and new ways of conceiving of their own bodies. Rather than merely presenting a story of top-down reform, this is an account of the flexibility and creativity of the cultural traditions of the working population. William G. Pooley tells the story of the folklorist Arnaudin and the men and women whose cultural traditions he recorded, then uncoversthe work carried out by Arnaudin to explore everyday speech about the body, stories of werewolves and shapeshifters, tales of animal cunning and exploitation, and songs about love and courtship. The volume focuses on the lives of a handful of the most talented storytellers and singers Arnaudinencountered, showing how their cultural choices reflect wider patterns of behaviour in the region, and across rural Europe. | Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France by William G. Pooley, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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