ANTH/WMGS 326 Issues in the Anthropology of Kinship
Winter 2018
Mar. 19: Arranging marriages, not marrying
Required  readings:  Bourdieu, Pierre (2004) “The peasant and his body.” Ethnography. 5(4): 579-599.

Bourdieu: not marrying in rural France
- Who does not get married in 1960s rural SW France?
- Why not?
- What is the experience of these men?
- What does not marrying mean for them? How do they internalize their unmarriageability?
- How does this relate to changes in the society?
- Are these insights applicable in other circumstances?
    - That is, can we examine the structural factors that promote or discourage marriage to (or partnering with) particular kinds of people for other societies?
    - Also, can we examine how people internalize the knowledge of their unmarriageability and manage their behaviour accordingly?

Canadian farmer demographics
http://farmersforum.com/city-girl-beware/

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