Anthropology at Home: Developments in French

by Marion Demossier

Using a series of case studies, starting in 1945 with the fall of the Vichy regime, this book explores French ethnology as an academic discipline and as a practice, in relation to the politics of heritage and the fostering of cultural identities at both a national and regional level. It argues that, in the past 25 years, the French state has sought to define a notion of ethnological heritage which has encouraged, not always successfully, the proliferation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754639908
• ISBN13: 9780754639909
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages