Respectable Lives - Social Standing in Rural New Zealand

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About the author

Elvin Hatch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several books, including Culture and Morality: The Relativity of Values in Anthropology (1983).

Summary

An ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. It addresses such questions as: Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? And what underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become?

Product details

• Authors: Elvin Hatch, Hatch Elvin
• Assisted by: Elvin Hatch (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.1994
• EAN: 9780520074736
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07473-6
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, New Zealand, New Zealand / Aotearoa