Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

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.

List of contents

Guide to Translation

Introduction

Chapter 1. 'A Village is for the Old and Dead': The Disappearing Village Scape

Chapter 2. A Kinship Frame of Mind

Chapter 3.  Marriage and the 'Order' of Life

Chapter 4. The Invisible Significants: Women and the Androcentric Social Imaginary

Chapter 5. The (Dis)Orderly Individual

Chapter 6. The Decoupling of Time and Order: Aging Bachelors and the (Im)productive Ethno-Nation

Conclusion: On Being Stuck

References

Index

About the author

Violeta Schubert is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Violeta Schubert, Violeta Schubert Schubert
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2020
• EAN: 9781789208627
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-862-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Macedonia, Sociology: family & relationships, North Macedonia, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, Population & demography, Population and Demography