Village life and labour
Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths -- Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams -- Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan -- Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes. -- Beyond Longphuirt? Li…
This book concerns the descendants of a Moroccan marabout, Sidi Lahsen Lyusi, collectively known as the wlad Siyyed ("children of the saint"), who live in a small village near Sefrou, Morocco. Paul Rabinow describes how the wlad sivved have maintained their symbolic and practica…
"This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and de…
Post-socialist development in Bulgaria has led to fundamental changes in social life and political relations and threatened village identity. This study underlinessome of the fundamental processes at work across eastern Europe that explain the widespread ambiguity in regard to p…
