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nice sociological study of village life in the's, with follow up updates over the nextyears.
Lots of information on postwar rural life and the ensuing changes, Engaging, informative, entertaining, well researched and well written, American professor and his family spend a sabbatical year in a rural French town in the earlys, learning to pee outside, live in the heated kitchen during the Mistral months, and conduct a lot of Rorschach tests.
Not really an academic work, more an affectionate "outsider's account" of a way of life in the line of a New Yorker piece, written by a professional academic.
An American anthropologist spent a year in a village in Provence in, and went back to the village several more times until thes.
This is a picture of a place at a moment in time, and across time, It's wonderful well written, well observed, fascinating, alien, marvellous,

I didn't read this for anything I mentioned to a friend that I'd been to Fontaine de Vaucluse to visit Petrarch, and he recommended this to me, so I read it.
I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to do worldbuilding, who wants to think about how people live and how that changes.


You wouldn't think France inwould be so strange, such another world, But you can learn a lot from the way it is, Read in college as required for a French class, but thinking of reading it again just for fun.
. . Entertaining and enlightening walk through a midth century Provençal village, This is not your Peter Mayle's Provence, . . and that is a good thing, I'm near the end of this book which I selected specifically because my partner and I will be traveling to France and staying in a village in the Vaucluse.
. . in the Luberonnes area of Provence, The book was touted as something that would provide a picture of the people in that area, described by the author who is a professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard, who lived in Peyrane for a year with his family.
The book was somewhat enjoyable and touched upon many aspects of the life and lives in Peyrane, now called Peyre.
The book is dated, however, Copyright was, and the book would have been more enjoyable for me, I think, had it reflected more current impressions of life in the French village.


I finished this book just before we went to visit our friend in the Luberon area.
While we were there, I told our friend about the book, she expressed interest in reading it, and so I left it with her.
She later told me it had been a very enjoyable read for her, She especially liked reading about the's era townspeople in Roussillon,
Read as part of a college course, Laurence Wylie's remarkably warm and human account of life in the rural French

village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic description of their culture.
Since, when Wylie began his study of Peyrane, to which he has returned on many occasions since, France has become a primarily industrial nationand French village life has changed in many ways.
The third edition of this book includes a fascinating new chapter based on Wylie's observations of Peyrane since, with discussions of the Peyranais' gradual assimilation into the outside world they once staunchly resisted, the flux of the village population, and the general transformation in the character of French rural communities.
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