Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Modernity and the Unmaking of Men
ISBN-10
1789208637
ISBN-13
9781789208634
Category
Social Science
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2020-08-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Violeta Schubert

Description

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, aging bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualizations of performativity and social presence.

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