The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley
John Cole and Eric Wolf
Abstract
This classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book's approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The chapters investigate two Alpine villages—the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret—only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.
Keywords: ethnicity, identity, nation-building, Alpine villages, St. Felix, Tret, culture, politics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1999 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520216815 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520216815.001.0001 |
