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AbstractThis article argues that the conventional division of early modern rural England into ‘fielden’ and ‘forest’ regions serves well neither agrarian nor social historians. It is suggested that the ‘fielden‐forest’ model is too blunt an instrument to analyse the diversity of regional farming systems, social structures and landholding patterns. Drawing upon an alternative seven‐way classification of agricultural regions, a more open‐ended and flexible ‘continuum’ model is proposed. It is further argued that the new schema offers a more satisfactory way of examining local differences in social and cultural structures than a division into two opp

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1991.tb00114.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn 1874 Parliament passed a law entitled ‘The Factories (Health of Women. etc) Act’ which limited the hours that women and children could work in textile factories to a 56 1/2 hour work week. In this paper I interpret the debates over hours legislation and the resulting Act as cultural productions. These cultural productions contributed to the formulation of a new social problem,‘the working mother’ promulgated an interpretation of who caused the problem, and reinforced a particular view of who was responsible for social reproduction. The rhetoric in the debates about the measure made crucial contributions to the future agenda for public policies concerning married women workers and working mothers, and reinforced a world view that state, economy and family are, and ought to remain, independent entities. My analysis draws from a range of theoretical traditions and works stressing the importance of language and other symbolic practices such as rituals in creating political subjects, problems and solutions. I examine the debates about state regulation in the 1870s to show how a symbolic or cultural analysis illuminates state‐level politics and the formulation of public policy. It was through such laws and debates that the state contributed to the social construction of gender and a gendere

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1991.tb00115.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractPeoples that span national borders are ambiguous in that they in some ways partake of both nations and in other ways partake of neither. This paper analyzes how the boundary ‐ the power to impose difference ‐ of the United States and Mexico is being eroded by transnational developments causing the structure of the nation‐states to become problematic. To the degree that anthropology is an official discipline predicated on the distinction between Self and the alien Other which it presumes to represent, the deterioration of the borders and boundaries of the nation‐state have serious implications for its epistemology and legitimacy and its power of representation of transnational communities and of difference in general. Furthermore, as national distinctions decline ethnicity emerges as a consciousness of dif

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1991.tb00116.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1991.tb00117.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY