Alternative countrysides, Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today

Year

2015

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

10-Jan-2026

Keywords

Anthropology ; Political Science

Description

I remember the moment well. I was doing fieldwork in Navarre, northern Spain, in the mid-1980s. Taking a weekend break, I was due to visit a commune in a hilly valley at the foot of the Pyrenees. Local friends had established it in a deserted village two years earlier. Before making the trek to their homes, my companion, who was from the area, wanted to show me Lakabe, the long-established, very successful commune on the other side of the narrow valley. As we walked down the valley’s sole road, we met a group of some twenty youths, all carrying shovels,...