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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Discovery of the Pyrenean Family
Chapter 2. Continuity over Time: Patterns of Land Inheritance
Chapter 3. The Contemporary Béarnais Farming Family
Chapter 4. Local Politics and Land Use
Chapter 5. Marriage, Inheritance and Social Change in a Gascon Novel: Simin Palay’s Los tres gojats de Bòrdavielha
Chapter 6. Bourdieu’s Béarnais Ethnography
Chapter 7. The Life of Property

Bibliography
Index

The Life of Property

House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France

Timothy Jenkins

208 pages, 1 map, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-667-2 Hb Published (April 2010)

eISBN 978-1-84545-823-2
web ISBN 978-1-84545-823-2